Strawberry CPAN crash after Camelbox installation

CPAN of my Strawberry perl installation used to work fine. A while ago I installed Camelbox perl to get its GTK libraries. I fixed the PATHs to leave no trace of Camelbox, and added its libs PERL5LIB. This solved my GTK-on-Windows-7 problems.

Today, I had to use CPAN again, but it crashes inexplicably. It is the Strawberry CPAN that runs.

C:\Users\tim>cpan -v
C:\strawberry\perl\bin/cpan script version 1.9, CPAN.pm version 1.9402

Whe开发者_C百科n I try to get anything -- including already installed modules -- CPAN successfully deletes a temporary directory, and suddenly crashes.

cpan> get List::Object
Running get for module 'List::Object'
Checksum for C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\id\M\MS\MSHILTONJ\List-Object-0.01.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache C:\strawberry\cpan\build for sizes
............................................................................DONE

DEL(1/1): C:\strawberry\cpan\build\tmp-16240

C:\Users\tim>

I get a generic Windows perl.exe has stopped working popup.

I'm fairly sure that this is caused by Camelbox. What can I do to fix or debug this? I've found no CPAN debug switches.

As daxim suggested, I ran cpan in the perl debugger. Here is the output as RAR (127 KB) and clear text (10.8 MB).

I fixed the PATHs to leave no trace of Camelbox, and added its libs PERL5LIB [to a Strawberry installation]

Your self-caused problem is on the C/object linking level. Mixing XS libraries for different versions of Perl is a bad idea.

Run the CPAN client under the Perl debugger, enable trace, continue until the crash happens. The Perl library that was loaded last hints you at the faulty link library. My gut suspects readline.

Crash occurs at Compress/Raw/Bzip2.pm line 63 which is XSLoader::load('Compress::Raw::Bzip2', $XS_VERSION);. This attempts to load the XS Bzip2 DLL whose exact name eludes me because I don't have a Strawberry installation around for checking. Reinstall this library without invoking the CPAN client, or try to hunt down all the pieces and delete them.