I could finally work around the problem. It appears there was a dll
with the same name (probably put there by another application) in
win/system32 folder so the ruby interpreter tried to access the
function in that dll and couldn't find it.

Thanks and sorry
Mauricio

On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Mau Bs <drm.mailist (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
> Hello everyone, I'm new to all this security area, but trying to learn
> a few things by myself. This is my very first post in the mailing
> list. I was trying to install the Metasploit Framework 3.1 for Windows
> (not the Cygwin one), and the installation goes ok, but, when I try to
> execute the GUI interface, it prompts an error that says it can not
> find the entry point for XML .. function located in xmlparse.dll. I
> began tracking the problem along the ruby scripts, and what I found is
> that when it tries to execute "require pango.so" in the pango.rb file,
> it fails. Got any clues?
> Thank you!
> Mauricio B
>

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