Re: Using pp to generate exe from pl in a cygwin env

[bob davis]

I dont know about your error you are getting when executing pp.
I do know that when executing cpan to install a package there is an 
option to force the installation to happen even if "make test" fails.
That is as far as I got.
I did identify the line of code that was failing during the install that 
was including the wrong dll(perl). I found this because strawberry perl 
was including the wrong dll and I needed to fix it. Fixing it would only 
include cygperl5_8.dll, you would still need the other cygwin dll's to 
get the exe to work.

Tell me if you want more details about any of this.



Darin wrote:
Hi Robert,
What do you mean by force install? Can you give me your steps for working
around this problem and solving the packaging issue for pp?

Did you also see the error I sent after executing pp?

Thanks.

-Darin

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Darin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

  
Hi Again,

I am receiving the following error when trying to generate a windows
binary:

$ pp -o cgsutil.exe cgsutil.pl
PAR::StrippedPARL::Static->get_raw() did not return the raw binary
data for a PAR loader at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/PAR/StrippedPARL/Base.pm
line 141, <DATA> line 1.
Could not write temporary parl (class PAR::StrippedPARL::Static) to
file '/tmp/parlQgiI.exe' at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8/PAR/StrippedPARL/Base.pm line 65, <DATA> line 1.
/usr/bin/pp: Failed to extract a parl from 'PAR::StrippedPARL::Static'
to file 'parlZOC8Q64.exe' at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/PAR/Packer.pm line
1157, <DATA> line 1.

Thanks.

-Darin

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Darin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
    
Hello,

Any help on this would help loads.


There was one error from make test.

$ make test
make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/dev/PAR-Packer-0.980/myldr'
/usr/bin/perl5.8.7.exe -e "chmod(oct('0600'),
'../blib/lib/PAR/StrippedPARL/Static.pm');"
/usr/bin/perl5.8.7.exe encode_append.pl ./static.exe
../blib/lib/PAR/StrippedPARL/Static.pm
/usr/bin/perl5.8.7.exe -e "chmod(oct('0444'),
'../blib/lib/PAR/StrippedPARL/Static.pm');"
/usr/bin/perl5.8.7.exe -e "chmod(oct('0600'),
'../blib/lib/PAR/StrippedPARL/Dynamic.pm');"
/usr/bin/perl5.8.7.exe encode_append.pl ./par.exe
../blib/lib/PAR/StrippedPARL/Dynamic.pm
/usr/bin/perl5.8.7.exe -e "chmod(oct('0444'),
'../blib/lib/PAR/StrippedPARL/Dynamic.pm');"
make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/dev/PAR-Packer-0.980/myldr'
/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/perl5.8.7.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"
"test_harness(0, 'inc', 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/00-pod.t
t/10-parl-generation.t  t/20-pp.t t/30-current_exec.t
t/00-pod................skipped
      all skipped: Set environment variable PERL_TEST_POD=1 to test POD
t/10-parl-generation....ok
t/20-pp.................skipped
      all skipped: '/usr/bin/perl5.8.7.exe' not found
t/30-current_exec.......# Please wait
t/30-current_exec.......ok 2/4
#   Failed test 'Found the same file via PATH and full path'
#   at t/30-current_exec.t line 52.
#          got: ''
#     expected: '0 = /cygdrive/c/dev/PAR-Packer-0.980/t/test-10.exec
# PAR_PROGNAME = /cygdrive/c/dev/PAR-Packer-0.980/t/test-10.exec
# PAR_TEMP =
      
/cygdrive/c/dev/PAR-Packer-0.980/t-tmp/par-drajan/cache-666d1f82b13c125a43eab90caed18f57
    
# exec =
# '
t/30-current_exec.......NOK 3# Looks like you failed 1 test of 4.
t/30-current_exec.......dubious
      Test returned status 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
DIED. FAILED test 3
      Failed 1/4 tests, 75.00% okay (less 1 skipped test: 2 okay, 50.00%)
Failed Test         Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed

      
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
t/30-current_exec.t    1   256     4    1  25.00%  3
2 tests and 1 subtest skipped.
Failed 1/4 test scripts, 75.00% okay. 1/35 subtests failed, 97.14% okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 14

I thought the issue for locating perl bin on a Win32 machine was
resolved in a previous release.

Thanks.

-Darin


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steffen Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:56 AM
Subject: Re: Using pp to generate exe from pl in a cygwin env
To: Darin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


Hi Darin,

I'm sorry, I can't help you. First and foremost, I do not have an
instance of cygwin nor any other win32 perl. You'd be *much* better off
writing to the PAR mailing list as advertised in the PAR documentation.
There's cygwin users on that list and the likelihood of receiving a
timely response is much greater, too.

That being said, it's very important that you include a description of
how you installed the module, potentially with a log.

The error you're facing is one from the make time. A "make test" run
would have showed you that the installation is broken:
PAR::StrippedPARL::Static (and ::Dynamic) is a container for the par
loader without bootstrapping modules that is generated during make time.
When you run pp, a copy of that "parl" binary is normally written to
disk and then augmented with the newest, installed version of the
necessary bootstrapping modules (PAR, Archive::Zip and friends). In your
installed version of the container module, there's obviously no parl.

Hope this helps a bit.

Best regards,
Steffen