Thanks so much -- that seems to have done it! The dll's had been in the
PAR file, but apparently not in the right path. This did the trick.
Thanks again!
Alan Stewart wrote:
On 23 Dec 2004 at 13:24, Mike Schroeder wrote:
I've been using PAR with wxPerl for quite a while and all seems fine. I
just updated my win2k build box to PAR 0.86 and now things break (PAR
0.86 seems to work fine in Linux). Using the minimal.pl sample from
wxPerl I try:
pp -o minwx.exe minimal.pl
And it builds minwx.exe without errors. When I try to run minwx.exe
though, I first get a "Unable to Locate DLL" popup box that says:
The dynamic link library wxmsw252u_adv_vc_custom.dll could not be found
in the specified path
C:\DOCUME~1\MIKESC~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\par-Mike_Schroeder\cache-1103829904;.;
C:\WINNT\System32;C:\WINNT\system;C:\WINNT;
C:\DOCUME~1\MIKESC~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\par-Mike_Schroeder\cache-1103829904;
C:\Perl\bin\;C:\WINNT\System32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem.
And on the console, I get:
C:\src>minwx.exe
Can't load
'C:\DOCUME~1\MIKESC~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\par-Mike_Schroeder\cache-11038299
04\2cb94e35.dll' for module Wx: load_file:The specified module could not
be foun
d at C:/aperl58/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 231.
at ../blib/lib/PAR/Heavy.pm line 107
Compilation failed in require at script/minimal.pl line 14.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at script/minimal.pl line 14.
However, the offending dll (wxmsw252u_adv_vc_custom.dll) is indeed in
the exe (double checked with winzip) in the lib\auto\Wx\ directory.
I also ran the automted_pp_test.pl and it is fine (except for test 31 i
think).
My next test was to go back to an older version of PAR -- the
ActiveState repository had 0.75 (eek) -- but it at least built
functional wxPerl apps.
Is this a bug in PAR 0.86, or do I have a weird build environment?
PAR 0.86 has some changes to eliminate redundant unpacking, but that means that any DLL
that is loaded indirectly by another DLL, rather than loaded by a Perl module needs to
be packed with the -l option so it will be packed in a shared lib directory and
unpacked into the temp directory next to the DLL that loads it, where it can be found.
pp -l <full_path>/wxmsw252u_adv_vc_custom.dll -o minwx.exe minimal.pl
Alan Stewart
