Tes3cmd Strawberry Perl Errors when cleaning mods

[Citadel535]

This is less a mod issue, and more a tool issue but seemed the most accurate forum to discuss in.

 

I was just wondering if anyone uses tes3cmd as it was my bread and butter tool for morrowind modding.

 

The tool when run gives an error of:

"syntax error at C:/Strawberry/perl/vendor/lib/Archive/Zip/ZipFileMember.pm line 254, at EOF

Missing right curly or square bracket at C:/Strawberry/perl/vendor/lib/Archive/Zip/ZipFileMember.pm line 254, at end of line

Compilation failed in require at C:/Strawberry/perl/vendor/lib/Archive/Zip.pm line 293.

Compilation failed in require at -e line 165."

Note I don't have a Strawberry perl install on my pc so I am assuming it uses some virtual/internal option to run this.

Now probably my fault for expecting a legacy tool would run on Windows 11 (only thing I can think that really changed were some windows updates).

However this occurs anytime I try to clean an esp with it so doesn't look to be isolated to a particular file.

Just checking if anyone else had this issue, and figured out how to solve it. Thanks!

[Dragon32]

AFAIK tes3lint is written in Perl and Strawberry Perl was what jms recommended people install to use it.

 

I'm using tes3cmd as a standalone .exe though.

https://www.tamriel-rebuilt.org/content/utility-tes3cmd

 

I've never seen that error, looks like it's failing in something to do with handling .zip archives. What's the command you're trying on what file?

[Citadel535]

I'm just running tes3cmd clean --overwrite anyofmymods.esp, but even if I try a basic clean like .\tes3cmd.exe clean .\SecretsOfTheCrystalCity.esp it returns the same error.

[Dragon32]

I'm really confuzzled as to what's going on then, I'm afraid.

[abot]

AFAIK tes3lint is written in Perl and Strawberry Perl was what jms recommended people install to use it.

 

I'm using tes3cmd as a standalone .exe though.

https://www.tamriel-rebuilt.org/content/utility-tes3cmd

 

I've never seen that error, looks like it's failing in something to do with handling .zip archives. What's the command you're trying on what file?

I don't think --overwrite is a valid parameter for clean

[EDIT] uhm. no it should be, but maybe try without it, or add "" around the plugin file name

[Citadel535]

Thanks for the help everyone!

 

Turns out it started working again after Windows updates yesterday. I am assuming something broke and was fixed after some other change in the OS maybe they found a bug in regression testing.