[Ifeffit] Demeter won't start in Windows 7

[willn]

Hi everyone,

My copy of Demeter on my Windows 7 machine stopped working at some point 
in the recent past, so I have re-installed it, but I still have the same 
problem - a command window and splash screen open briefly, before 
disappearing.

In my Path variable I have bumped the perl addresses up above the MinGW 
one, as suggested in one of the common fixes, but this did not solve the 
problem. I had a good look through the mailing-list archive for similar 
problems to mine, but each seem to be different (the log file errors 
were different). I have commented out the appropriate lines in the batch 
files, but, predictably I guess, this only had the effect of removing 
the splash screen when the program attempts to start-up. I have also 
played around a little installing newer versions of Strawberry, but 
similarly to no avail.

If time permits, would anyone mind helping me interpret my log file 
(attached)? I'm not really computer literate enough to understand what 
is written there!

Grateful thanks in advance,
William

-- 
William Nash
PhD Student, Experimental Petrology
Earth Sciences Department
Oxford University

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BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Demeter.pm line 54.
Compilation failed in require at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Demeter/UI/Athena.pm line 24.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Demeter/UI/Athena.pm line 24.
Compilation failed in require at C:\strawberry\perl\site\bin\dathena.bat line 49.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\strawberry\perl\site\bin\dathena.bat line 49.
Started at 2015-07-12T11:41:58
Win7Home Premium (64-bit) Service Pack 1	Service Pack 16176012107681

PATH:
	t Shared\Windows Live;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files\Intel\WiFi\bin\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intel\WirelessCommon\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Shared;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\DLLShared\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\OEM\DLLShared\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\OEM\DLLShared\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\OEM\12.0\DLLShared\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Roxio\OEM\AudioCore\;C:\strawberry\c\bin\gnuplot\bin;C:\Python27;C:\Python27\DLLs;C:\Python27\Scripts;C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\vtk;C:\Python27\gnuplot\binary;C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\osgeo;C:\Program Files (x86)\pythonxy\SciTE-3.3.2-3;C:\Program Files (x86)\pythonxy\console;C:\Program Files (x86)\pythonxy\swig;C:\Program Files (x86)\pythonxy\gettext\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Phone\;C:\MinGW32-xy\bin

PATH (reordered):
	t Shared\Windows Live;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files\Intel\WiFi\bin\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intel\WirelessCommon\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Shared;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\DLLShared\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\OEM\DLLShared\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\OEM\DLLShared\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\OEM\12.0\DLLShared\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Roxio\OEM\AudioCore\;C:\strawberry\c\bin\gnuplot\bin;C:\Python27;C:\Python27\DLLs;C:\Python27\Scripts;C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\vtk;C:\Python27\gnuplot\binary;C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\osgeo;C:\Program Files (x86)\pythonxy\SciTE-3.3.2-3;C:\Program Files (x86)\pythonxy\console;C:\Program Files (x86)\pythonxy\swig;C:\Program Files (x86)\pythonxy\gettext\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Phone\;C:\MinGW32-xy\bin

perl version: v5.18.2
backend: ifeffit

@INC:
	C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/MSWin32-x64-multi-thread
	C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib
	C:/strawberry/perl/vendor/lib
	C:/strawberry/perl/lib
	.
Can't load 'C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/auto/Ifeffit/Ifeffit.dll' for module Ifeffit: load_file:%1 is not a valid Win32 application at C:/strawberry/perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 190.
 at (eval 18) line 1.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 18) line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 18) line 1.