Error in loading some Expat.dll

balajinagaraju has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, Till now i was using winxp and recently migrated to win7 and so i copied all my project files from xp to windows7 and many things stopped working and was able to fix it but i am getting an error in one of the modules which gives the below error and i am not able to resolve this issue. Has anyone faced a similar problem.? The error is as below. Can't load 'C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/auto/XML/Parser/Expat/Expat.dll' for module XML::Parser::Expat: load_file:The specified module could not be found at C:/Perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 191. at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 18 Before migration it was perfectly working on my winxp mcahie but now it fails to work . Any help is highly appreciated.

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Re: Error in loading some Expat.dll by Corion (Patriarch) on May 18, 2012 at 09:22 UTC
Most likely, some DLL like the DLL for the Expat parser itself, was not migrated to the new machine. That DLL might or might not live in `C:\Windows\System32`. You will have to find out which DLL is missing and copy that DLL into an appropriate location on Windows 7.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Error in loading some Expat.dll by marto (Cardinal) on May 18, 2012 at 09:27 UTC
Did you install Strawberry Perl after moving to windows 7, or had you just copied the previous installation? I'm pretty sure Strawberry Perl ships with XML::Parser::Expat.	[reply]
Re^2: Error in loading some Expat.dll by balajinagaraju (Sexton) on May 18, 2012 at 09:29 UTC
I dint not install strawberry perl , i just copied my set up from old machine and set the env variables. As i had downloaded lot of modules from CPAN i just copied it to the new machine.	[reply]
Re^3: Error in loading some Expat.dll by marto (Cardinal) on May 18, 2012 at 09:31 UTC
This is where your problems come from that you're resolving now.	[reply]
Re^3: Error in loading some Expat.dll by balajinagaraju (Sexton) on May 18, 2012 at 09:32 UTC
You are right strawberry perl ships XML::Parser::Expat , i have the dll present the mentioned location but still i get this error.	[reply]
Re^4: Error in loading some Expat.dll by marto (Cardinal) on May 18, 2012 at 09:36 UTC
Re^5: Error in loading some Expat.dll by balajinagaraju (Sexton) on May 18, 2012 at 09:40 UTC
Re^4: Error in loading some Expat.dll by balajinagaraju (Sexton) on May 18, 2012 at 09:34 UTC
Re^5: Error in loading some Expat.dll by marto (Cardinal) on May 18, 2012 at 09:37 UTC


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