I can replicate the errors using a cut-down script Francois provided, and
which I stripped further to only use Glib. I used Dependency Walker to
check the hierarchy and pp_autolink is packing all the needed dlls.
I then checked my own (working) code, and it adds the PAR_TEMP folder to
the path before loading Glib.
Francois - can you add the begin block from the code below to your script
and test if it works?
If it does then maybe PAR_TEMP should be appended to the path by PAR, but
that's Roderich's call.
Regards,
Shawn.
use strict;
use warnings;
BEGIN {
if ($ENV{PAR_0}) {
print "Adding $ENV{PAR_TEMP} to the path";
use Config;
$ENV{PATH} .= "$Config{path_sep}$ENV{PAR_TEMP}";
}
};
use Glib;
print "1\n";
On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 at 20:46, RAPPAZ Francois via par <par@perl.org> wrote:
> Hi there
>
>
>
> Roderich, some years ago was explaining why, once the lib/auto/Glib …/Gtk2
> had been hidden with renaming them in the par archive, running the exe made
> with pp worked for a script using Gtk2:
>
> “Every DLL you add to the packed executable with "pp -l ..." is flatly
> packed in the zip in directory shlib/ARCH and unconditionally extracted in
> the cache area. Also the packed executable runs with the cache directory
> prepended to PATH. So when asked to load the glue DLL for Gtk2.pm etc,
> DyneLoader loads Gtk2.dll from the cache directory. That way we get rid of
> the second copy of the DLLs (extracted and loaded with mangled names) and
> inter-DLL symbol references work as expected. »
>
>
>
> On my pc (with a new perl set up), this recipe does not seems to work
> anymore. Moreover, my folders in perl/site/lib/auto/Glib, …/Gtk2 …/Pango,
> …/Cairo did not have corresponding glue dll Glib.dll, Gtk2.dll and so on,
> even if these Gtk2 scripts are running fine from perl without these. So
> why are these dll been needed after all ?
>
>
>
> I have found these glue dll in my c:/users/rappazf/AppData …. Folders from
> the unpacking of previous par archives and placed these in a separate
> folder c:/docs/perl_dll
>
> I have then include these in the par archive with –link, but the exe is
> still crashing.
>
>
>
> should I select others dll files from these …lib/auto/… to be included
> with link ? how can I select the correct one ?
>
>
>
> I tried to pack a 10 lines long script with using pp –x but once open, the
> gtk window seems to block pp. Closing the window gives the control back to
> pp but the resulting exe failed the same.
>
>
>
> Thanks for any comment
>
>
>
> François
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