Hi!
Thanks a lot for your reply.
Indeed this is not the standard perl, rather one I compiled myself!
I do not consider it to be an error from the OS, but rather PAR not
fully performing up to its usual standard, 8-)...
Cheers!
Philippe
Reini Urban wrote:
>
> 2007/11/23, Philippe Schaffnit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > I've just run into difficulties with PAR under CygWin: somehow a 'dll'
> > perl depends upon ('cygperl5_8_8.dll' in my case fails to be picked-up),
> > '--link' doesn't seem to help (it does make its way into the archive,
> > though...). The only workaround, I've found, is to make sure this 'dll'
> > is in the search path when I call the packed executable: this is
> > acceptable, but should nevertheless not be necessary...
> >
> > Can anyone comment on this?
>
> BTW:
> This is not the official cygwin.com perl, which has
> /usr/bin/cygperl5_8.dll and corrected
> import library libperl.dll.a and linker helpers. (perlld, ld2)
>
> All perl 5.8.x main libs should be API-wise conformant,
> so we removed the minor_version suffix for easier updates.
>
> > If not, I am willing to invest some time to get to the bottom of it and
> > possibly improve it, if someone can tell me where to look... Why isn't
> > it found (even with '--execute'), and how does it work for shared
> > libraries?
>
> Look at your /usr/bin/perlld
> Maybe you mixed up your installations.
> --
> Reini Urban
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