Tue Sep 30 18:36:49 2014: Request 99229 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by mikef...@att.net
Queue: PAR
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #99229] Problem with PAR::Packer 1.022 on Perl
5.20.1 and earlier.
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Requestors: sergio.fanchio...@standardandpoors.com
Status: new
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=99229 >
It could be related to the problem I am having. I'd like to try
it, but I couldn't figure out how to install with the no test
option.
Mike
On 9/30/2014 11:11 AM, par-digest-h...@perl.org wrote:
> Tue Sep 30 12:11:10 2014: Request 99229 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created bysergio.fanchio...@standardandpoors.com
> Queue: PAR
> Subject: Problem with PAR::Packer 1.022 on Perl 5.20.1 and earlier.
> Broken in: (no value)
> Severity: (no value)
> Owner: Nobody
> Requestors:sergio.fanchio...@standardandpoors.com
> Status: new
> Ticket <URL:https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=99229 >
>
>
> Dear PAR::Packer Maintainers,
>
> I ran into an issue when trying to build an executable from a Perl script
> under Windows 7 (64 and 32 bits) using Strawberry Perl 5.20.1 (and 5.16 also)
> which seems to be caused by the use of an updated version of gcc in the
> MinGW package that is included in the distribution. When I wanted to run the
> par generated executable on a machine where strawberry perl was not installed
> it complained that libwinpthreads-1.dll was missing during the unpacking
> stage. After a bit of testing the source of the problem was that myldr was
> not including this library when building the executable. A change in the
> Makefile.PL file as shown below fixed the problem (not very elegantly). The
> missing dll breaks the portability of the executable and would ruin the
> purpose of building executable distributions.
>
> Thanks for the fantastic PAR mechanism!
>
> Regards,
>
> Sergio
PS: The PAR::Packer does not pass all tests either under Windows 7 so I had to
install it using the notest option. I wonder if this is related this problem
also.
