Hello,
On Win98, perl v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(ActiveState Binary build 804) I successfully installed:
Archive-Zip-1.09
Module-ScanDeps-0.39
PAR-Dist-0.07
but am having trouble installing par-0.79.
1) I have PAR-0.79-MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8.2.par
but don't know what to do with it!
The install note mentions "Module::Install framework"
and says "no action is required on your part" -- but one has to
something with the PAR-0.79-MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8.2.par
file, mustn't one? I thought about just copying over the stuff
in the <0.79>.par file to my installation -- but:
a) the <0.79>.par file has a /script subdirectory which is not
in the existing installation tree c:\opt\perl.
b) the existing installation tree has c:\opt\perl\lib as well as
c:\opt\perl\site\lib -- so which lib should be the destination
directory? (Archive-Zip, Module-ScanDeps and Par-Dist have
ended up in c:\opt\perl\site\lib.)
Now, the "perl Makefile.PL" command is happy about finding the
right version of Archive-Zip, Module-ScanDeps and PAR-Dist:
*** ExtUtils::AutoInstall version 0.56
*** Checking for dependencies...
[Core Features]
- File::Temp ...loaded. (0.13)
- Compress::Zlib ...loaded. (1.16 >= 1.16)
- Archive::Zip ...loaded. (1.09 >= 1)
- Module::ScanDeps ...loaded. (0.39 >= 0.37)
- PAR::Dist ...loaded. (0.07 >= 0.06)
*** ExtUtils::AutoInstall configuration finished.
Writing Makefile for the par.exe program
Usage: xsubpp [-v] [-C++] [-except] [-prototypes]
[-noversioncheck] [-nolinenumbers] [-nooptimize] [-noinout]
[-noargtypes] [-s pattern] [-typemap typemap]... file.xs
Writing Makefile for PAR
2) BUT ppm query * lists Archive-Zip but not Module-ScanDeps
and not PAR-Dist. Why not?
3) And, once everything is installed, does the pp command
require a compiler to generate .exe from .pl?
4) Perl2exe can cross-compile -- for example, from linux one can
convert a .pl file to a .exe file that will run on Windows -- a
windows exe file can be created on Linux. However, the example
in PAR::Tutorial "Cross-platform Packages" requires one to run pp
on a Windows platform to generate an executable that runs on
Windows. Why is there this limitation in pp?
5) Are there any references to help understand the Bonus Slides in
PAR::Tutorial, and to understand what goes on inside "Heavy.pm"?
--Suresh
