Strawberry Perl libeay32_.dll problem

I've installed Strawberry Perl (v5.12.3) on Windows Server 2008 32 bit and I was hoping to run simpledb CLI tools.

I had a small issue with HOME environment variable, I renamed it to HOMEPATH to solve the problem, but when I tried to run I got:

This application has failed to start because libeay32_.dll was not
found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

Anyone knows how to solve the problem? Is it an issue of Strawberry Perl?

asked Jun 9 '11 at 17:37

stivlo
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	I've run a search in my disk and found that libeay32_.dll is located in d:\perl\c -- so I think to solve the problem I've to find a way to let perl look in that directory for DLLs – stivlo Jun 9 '11 at 17:44
	It's actually located in d:\perl\c\bin and that directory is listed in my PATH variable. – stivlo Jun 9 '11 at 17:51
	As a temporary hack until someone suggest me a better solution, I've copied libeay32_.dll in the same directory of perl.exe - It is found only if I first cd to perl bin directory and run perl from there. Now it complains that it can't find libssl32_.dll, so I think I've to repeat this workaround for a few libraries. – stivlo Jun 9 '11 at 17:55
	Next in line I found errors for libxml2-2_.dll, libiconv-2_.dll, and libz_.dll -- after copying them, it works. However I hope that someone suggests a better solution. – stivlo Jun 9 '11 at 18:05

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