I have a large project requiring maintenance. If I run the file on cmd, it works fine
perl entry.pl
However if I run with Eclipse (using EPIC plugin for Perl), it throws the following error
Global symbol "%Config" requires explicit package name at C:/Perl64/lib/Errno.pm line 11
I noticed the project includes a file called config.pm. Notice that 'c' is lower case in config.pm, but upper case in "%Config". I thought perl was case sensitive. I guess one solution would be renaming config.pm and all its references to something else (as suggested in Perl installation broken).
Is there a way to fix this other than renaming all references to config.pm ?
Why does it work when run on cmd, but not on Eclipse?
Since I resolved this issue. I thought I would answer, so that it can help somebody else.
On Eclipse for some reason, having a config.pm 'collided' with the perl built in Config.pm, although the 'c's are different cases. If config.pm is part of a large project, renaming all references to the class config to something else is extremely difficult. The easiest is to move config.pm to a new directory (say MyMod) and have
package MyMod::config;
in config.pm
With this , I only need to change use config to
use MyMod::config;
This solution works on both EPIC and outside (on command line)