A couple of bugs to report I'm afraid...
1) When installing a new version of PAR over an old version installed by ppm on
Windows nmake incorrectly identifies some files as unchanging and fails to update
them, resulting in a broken install. After I went through the files reported as
unchanging and deleted them all and did a fresh "nmake install" everything started
working. A quick work-round might be to force an update of all files each time on
Win32?
2) The -w flag on the shebang line seems to get ignored when compiling scripts with
pp, as no warnings are produced by the created exe. If I replace this with a "use
warnings" statement then everything works as expected.
3) Scripts using Math::BigInt won't compile with pp. I get a warning saying:
Couldn't load any math lib, not even the default at C:/Perl/lib/Math/BigInt.pm line
2427.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at script/bigint.pl line 4.
The warning here seems strange as it reports the error in the locally installed
BigInt.pm, not one extracted from a PAR archive. The script to generate this was just:
#!perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Math::BigInt;
my $x = Math::BigInt->new('10000000');
print $x->bsqrt() , "\n";
4) One last little one :-) The file details for pp generated .exes are a bit strange
(the things you get if you set your file view to "tiles" or if you hold your mouse
over a file). For instance the perl interpreter details say:
perl.exe
Description: Perl Command Line Interpreter
Company: ActiveState Tool Corp.
File Version: 5.8.0.806
..but the one for parl (and all pp generated exes) says
parl.exe
Description: PAR_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX [lots more of these!]
Company: PAR_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX [lots more of these!]
File Version: 0.0.0.0
I'm not particularly bothered about being able to fill these in (although that might
be nice), but putting a shorter (or even no) string in instead would look better.
All of this is with PAR-0.74 on Perl 5.8.0 under WinXP.
Cheers
Simon.
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Simon Andrews PhD
Bioinformatics Dept
The Babraham Institute
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