Sun Sep 25 03:06:46 2016: Request 118053 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by RSCHUPP
Queue: PAR-Packer
Subject: Problem with packed perl archive for biber on 64-bit Cygwin
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Owner: Nobody
Requestors: kbr...@cornell.edu
Status: new
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=118053 >
On 2016-09-24 21:06:22, kbr...@cornell.edu wrote:
> On 9/23/2016 3:51 PM, Bugs in PAR-Packer via RT wrote:
> I understand a little better how the packed executable is supposed to
> work. First the embedded files are extracted, which are a perl
> interpreter (named biber) and cygperl5_24.dll in; it's then supposed
> to
> be possible to run the extracted biber, which will extract the rest of
> the files. Roderich, is this right?
Your analysis is correct.
> So it seems that the solution should be to add cygcrypt-0.dll as an
> embedded file.
Yes. Try changing line 43 of myldr/embed_files.pl in the PAR::Packer source to
*is_system_lib = sub { shift =~
m{^/usr/bin/(?!cygcrypt\b)|^\Q$system_root\E/}i };
i.e. /usr/bin/cygcrypt-0.dll is _not_ regarded as a "system library" anymore.
Then re-build and install PAR:Packer and re-pack biber.
Cheers, Roderich
