Program help! (involves Perl)

[Vaikyuko]

Okay. I am not really all that computer savvy. I like to say I am, but I'm really not, not when it comes down to it. Here's the problem.

I was looking for a program that could keep track of various things with images and whatnot, and got myself GCStar's basic Windows package. I have heard of Perl before, and heard of all these runtimes and such that the download page (http://wiki.gcstar.org/en/install_windows) mentions, but have never worked with them myself. So I install the program, and everything seems to be going at a jolly good rate. It finishes, and when I attempt to open it using the installation's usual "launch program" checkbox, nothing happens. I go into my programs listing, find it, and also find that when I click it, the computer claims that another program is currently using the file (which seems to be named \GCStar\bin\gcstar.bat). I didn't download or install anything else, just the source package.

Can someone please tell me what the hell I should do? I just want to run the program...(also: layman's terms, please!). Thanks in advance.

[Leader Desslock]

You say you installed GCStar, but the page you liked has the following information:


Dependencies

GCstar uses gtk2-perl. Since version 1.1.0, it needs to be installed manually.


The only thing I have to ask is: Did you follow the link and install gtk2-perl according to the instructions? If not, then... how can it work? It needs Perl to run; that's why it's called a dependency. It depends on the presence of Perl.

Install the linked version of Perl, manually, per the instructions. Depending on how smart they made the program, it may work at that point. If it doesn't work, then there may be additional configuration required that the installer wasn't able to do (since there was no existing version of Perl detected). That might be as easy as modifying the *.bat file to point to the Perl installation, etc. You won't know 'til you try.

Good luck.

[Vaikyuko]

Okay, I tried installing and running everything - same problem. I'm looking through their support forums to see if I can't find something that might help me.