Hi Chris, Chris Dolan schrieb:
I just wanted to report a success with PAR 0.959. I'm building my own under CPAN.pm from ActiveState Perl 5.8.8 build 817 with MS Visual Studio 2003. This is my first PAR upgrade on Windows in about two years (since AS build 810 with the Bribes build of PAR 0.85 -- that combination was rock-solid for me).
thanks for your report. I have been hoping for this. I couldn't test with AS Perl + Visual Studio since I only have a win32 image with Strawberry Perl + MinGW.
The only gotcha I experienced was that I initially launched a plain cmd.exe instead of the shell with the Visual Studio envvars. With the former, I got lots of failures with static libs using the CPAN-downloaded .par, but with the latter everything went very smoothly.
I assume the problem was that the .par was built with Strawberry+MinGW. Perhaps I should go back to asking others to generate the .par's so that they're built for AS Perl + Visual Studio. Strawberry Perl users can *always* build PAR themselves anyway.
I don't understand what happened in respect to the shell? Can you elaborate? Is this a PAR issue I should look into fixing?
Steffen
