Roderich, the patch worked fine,it builds and executes alright !! can you shed more light on the internals of why my quick 'hack' worked before patching PAR? it was a hack based on observation rather than having knowledge of the internals
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Roderich Schupp < roderich.sch...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Roderich Schupp > <roderich.sch...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Puzzled, Roderich > > Not anymore :) In fact loading of XS modules (i.e. the DLLs) has been > broken > for _all_ platforms with Perl 5.14.0, because 5.14.0 (actually starting > with 5.13.6) changed XSLoader.pm. This causes the hack used by > PAR::Packer to intercept loading of XS DLLs to fail. You won't notice > until you run the packed executable on a machine without a Perl > installation (or a suitably different Perl), because failing to intercept > it will load the DLLs from the installed Perl instead. > > nikos doesn't use Perl 5.14.0, but Strawberry 5.12.3.0 has elected > to include the modified XSLoader.pm (from 5.13.6 onward) in lieu > of the one included in Perl 5.12.3. > > Please try the attached patch to PAR::Packer, should make > the hack work on both old and new versions of XSLoader.pm. > Note: you must rebuild and reinstall PAR::Packer and then repack > executables > to see any effect. > > > Cheers, Roderich >
