<DIV>I'm trying to use RDDp with ActiveState Perl 5.8 on Windows XP PRO.</DIV>
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<DIV>I'm not quite sure I understand the prerequisites, so I hope you'll can shed some light and bear with me. I'm surely in over my head. And yes, I'm new to Perl, which I am installing just for this purpose. Searching far and wide, I don't find a great deal of info relative to the Windows XP/Perl/RRDP combination.</DIV>
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<DIV>I have VC++ 6.0 on my machine, but compiling RRDTOOL is beyond my expertise. (Yes, I tried, using the supplied project files, but there are many errors). I obtained a win32 binary of rrdtool 1.2.27 (latest version of a compiled windows binary that I could find), and copied it to a location on my drive (no explicit install required). It runs OK from command line, I can create RRDs. The latest win32 binaries on the download site do not seem to include pipe support.</DIV>
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<DIV>I got the 1.2.27 full distribution, and tried to perl compile the module using NMAKE. After commenting out the 'fnctl' lines, and modifying the base.t to point to the windows path of the rrdtool executable, I tried to do NMAKE test.</DIV>
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<DIV>This hangs perl indefinitely, at '1/5', but I do see the test rrd get created. I have to kill perl process. </DIV>
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<DIV>I did go forward with NMAKE install for kicks, and this did appear to install to Perl/site properly.</DIV>
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<DIV>I have some other perl scripts that essentially do the same thing (hang sometime after the RDDp::create)</DIV>
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<DIV>Since I am using NMAKE from VC 6.0 to compile rrdp, is there a requirement that RRDTOOL also be compiled with VC 6.0? I guess its possible the win32 binary I am using was compiled with something else, so I am hitting an incompatibility, or it was not compiled with Perl support. (I'm not sure thats applicable/relevant to RRDP pipe). </DIV>
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<DIV>If you could point me in the right direction, or suggest how I might debug the issue, I'd appreciate it.</DIV>
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