Hi, I got this email address from Steffen Müller, after he mentioned on IRC that he no longer maintains PAR::Packer.
I'm not sure if anyone in charge knows yet, but this module hasn't compiled on Strawberry Perl for the last few years. There was a time I could get it working by using a somewhat old version of the module, but even after trying all the old versions I can find from https://metacpan.org/ last week.... they still result in the same problem(s). I decided to finally write in after seeing a surprising amount of people joining #win32 on irc.perl.org and asking about it. All that is needed to demonstrate this is install any recent version of Strawberry Perl, and run: cpan PAR::Packer on Windows. Can anything be done? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, to whoever reads this. I'd be more than happy to be the mule that attempts to try different versions to see if any suggested patch might make this work again. Here is an error log, from the command: cpan PAR::Packer 1> pp-error.txt 2>&1 ===== CPAN: CPAN::SQLite loaded ok (v0.202) Database was generated on Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:16:25 GMT Running install for module 'PAR::Packer' Running make for R/RS/RSCHUPP/PAR-Packer-1.013.tar.gz CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.71) CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.055) Checksum for C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\id\R\RS\RSCHUPP\PAR-Packer-1.013.tar.gz ok CPAN: Archive::Tar loaded ok (v1.88) CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.22) CPAN: Parse::CPAN::Meta loaded ok (v1.4404) CPAN: CPAN::Meta loaded ok (v2.120921) CPAN: Module::CoreList loaded ok (v2.70) CPAN.pm: Building R/RS/RSCHUPP/PAR-Packer-1.013.tar.gz Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Prototype mismatch: sub main::prompt: none vs ($;$) at C:/strawberry/perl/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm line 219. Writing Makefile for par.exe Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json Writing Makefile for PAR::Packer Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json cp lib/App/Packer/PAR.pm blib\lib\App\Packer\PAR.pm cp lib/PAR/Packer.pm blib\lib\PAR\Packer.pm cp lib/PAR/Filter/Obfuscate.pm blib\lib\PAR\Filter\Obfuscate.pm cp lib/PAR/Filter/PodStrip.pm blib\lib\PAR\Filter\PodStrip.pm cp lib/PAR/StrippedPARL/Base.pm blib\lib\PAR\StrippedPARL\Base.pm cp lib/PAR/Filter.pm blib\lib\PAR\Filter.pm cp lib/PAR/Filter/PatchContent.pm blib\lib\PAR\Filter\PatchContent.pm cp lib/PAR/Filter/Bytecode.pm blib\lib\PAR\Filter\Bytecode.pm cp lib/pp.pm blib\lib\pp.pm cp lib/PAR/Filter/Bleach.pm blib\lib\PAR\Filter\Bleach.pm C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe file2c.pl -s ..\script\par.pl my_par_pl.c load_my_par_pl C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe sha1.c.PL gcc -c -s -O2 -DWIN32 -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -fno-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields -I"C:\strawberry\perl\lib\CORE" -DLOAD_MY_LIBGCC -DPARL_EXE=\"parl.exe\" -s -O2 main.c windres -F pei-i386 -i winres\pp.rc -o winres\pp.res windres -o ppresource.coff winres\pp.res windres: unexpected version string length 68 != 32 + 8 dmake: Error code 129, while making 'ppresource.coff' dmake.exe: Error code 255, while making 'subdirs' RSCHUPP/PAR-Packer-1.013.tar.gz C:\strawberry\c\bin\dmake.exe -- NOT OK CPAN: YAML::XS loaded ok (v0.38) Running make test Can't test without successful make Running make install Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible Stopping: 'install' failed for 'PAR::Packer'. ===== -- smu johnson <smujohn...@gmail.com>
