On Sunday, March 16, 2003 10:23 PM, "Autrijus Tang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 09:31:47PM +1100, John wrote: >> Following a lead in another list, I have just this weekend discovered >> PAR. >> >> I have downloaded the binaries file >> PAR-0.65-MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.6.1.par.zip which unpacks to this: > > You do not need to do that. > >> There doesn't seem to be an obvious automated install process included >> (ie Makefile.pl) so I thought I must have done something wrong. Before I >> attempt to manually install (manually copy files in to Perl tree) > > Although it would work, it's not encouraged. I didn't think it would be. > >> I thought I should ask how I should have done this. >> >> I don't have MS VC++, which is why I opted for binaries. I have >> ActiveState Perl 5.6.1.633 on Windows XP. > > The correct way to install PAR is to simply download it from CPAN: > > http://search.cpan.org/~autrijus/PAR/ Got that. > > extract the tarball, and run > > perl Makefile.PL > nmake > nmake test > nmake install > > it should automagically take care of all dependencies, and need no > nmake or VC++ exist on your system prior to install. Let me know > if it does not work for you. > > P.S.: If your machine is behind a firewall that blocks FTP, you may > place the PAR-0.65-MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.6.1.par (without .zip > extension -- I sense bad mozilla magic here) under the PAR-0.65/ Internet Explorer seems to have non standard methods of determining file/mime types in some instances (a well known issue that Microsoft don't seem to consider important). It typed it as a 'WinZip' file and named it accordingly. I didn't realise it had done that at the time. > directory, and run 'perl Makefile.PL' again. > > Eventually you should be able to install a .par file from the > autogenerated Build.PL inside it, but it's not yet the case. > > Thanks, > /Autrijus/ > Thank you Autrijus. After some to-ing and fro-ing updating dependencies I got it installed this morning. What is the file 'parl.exe.bat'? -- Regards John McMahon (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
