[rt.cpan.org #72018] When used with Selenium IE Driver (64-bit), this module crashes

Fri Oct 19 01:27:10 2012: Request 72018 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by BULKDD
       Queue: Win32-API
     Subject: When used with Selenium IE Driver (64-bit), this module crashes
   Broken in: 0.64
    Severity: Critical
       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: [email protected]
      Status: new
 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72018 >


On Fri Oct 28 14:37:58 2011, AIVATURI wrote:
> I'm trying to implement Selenium IE Driver bindings in Perl. This module 
> works fine under 32-bit mode but in 64-bit mode it crashes with the 64-
> bit IE dll. 
> 
> My environment:
> 
> OS: Windows 7 64-bit
> Perl: ActivePerl 64-bit v5.10
> Win32::API v0.64 
> Selenium IE Driver DLL: 
> http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cpp/prebuilt/x64/Release/IEDriv
> er.dll
> 
> Here are the steps to reproduce:
> 
> 1) Download the IEDriver.dll from the link above.
> 2) Use this script to start a simple IE Driver server:
> 
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> use Win32::API;
> 
> my $start = Win32::API->new('IEDriver.dll', 'StartServer', 'I', 'P', 
> '_cdecl');
> my $server = $start->Call(4444);
> 
> BTW, this same script on a 32-bit Windows with Perl (32-bit) & 
> Win32::API works as expected. The crash happens only in Perl 64-bit on 
> Windows 7. 

Can you try the latest version of Win32::API 0.72 from CPAN and see if
it fixes your problem?