how to install win32::GuidGen on windows 64 bit OS

[dattaforit]

Dear friends,

I want to use the Win32::GuidGen( ) in my perl script. My Perl version is 5.8.9 and it is on windows(64 bit). For this function, i will

require win32::API, for where can i get the win32::API module for windows 64 bit.

Please do the needful.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

[eWish]

To my knowledge there is not a Win32::API 64 bit edition.

[BeemerBiker]

I have both of the following installed on my 64bit Vista system

C:\Perl\bin>perl -v
This is perl, v5.10.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
C:\Perl64\bin>perl -v
This is perl, v5.10.0 built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread

FWIW, the contents of each lib\win32api are identical

C:\Perl\lib\Win32API>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 70C0-E0E8
 Directory of C:\Perl\lib\Win32API
02/09/2009  09:20 AM    <DIR>          .
02/09/2009  09:20 AM    <DIR>          ..
02/09/2009  09:20 AM    <DIR>          File
02/28/2007  01:14 AM           100,646 File.pm
04/21/2008  04:19 PM            47,995 Net.pm
02/09/2009  09:20 AM    <DIR>          Registry
06/24/2008  07:13 PM            62,518 Registry.pm

I quit using Perl64 since it was lacking common ODBC drivers. ie: Microsoft Access. Also, the 64 bit version did not buy me anything except incompatibility and missing drivers. I have not made any API calls in perl (yet) so I cant really help you. The 32 bit perl version seems to work fine and my code runs under ubuntu without any changes (so far).

[KevinADC]

perl 5.10 has a 64 bit PPM repository, earlier versions of perl running on 64 bit OS don't. I would be careful having two installs of perl on a Windows box, things could get very confusing down the road.