[rt.cpan.org #114316] PAR::Packer not installing

[Roderich Schupp via RT]

Thu May 12 03:30:32 2016: Request 114316 was acted upon.
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Subject: PAR::Packer not installing
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I downloaded package
PAR-Packer-1.013_patched.tar

Huh, what's that? Please use a official, recent version of PAR::Packer,
e.g. from https://metacpan.org/release/PAR-Packer

Cheers, Roderich

[Roderich Schupp via RT]

Fri May 13 04:36:52 2016: Request 114316 was acted upon.
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I re-installed perl v5.24.0, this time I installed versions of
Getopt::ArgvFile(v 1.07, not latest, because this version was
mentioned as pre-requisite) and Module::ScanDeps (latest version as

Why did you do this, the version of Getopt::ArgvFile has obviously nothing to do
with your problem. Randomly installing and de-installing stuff won't help
either...

...
C:/TDM-GCC-64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/4.9.2/../../../../x86_64-w64-min
gw32/bin/ld.exe: i386 architecture of input file `ppresource.coff' is
incompatible with i386:x86-64 output

You have a broken setup: this ld.exe is NOT from the Strawberry installation
(which has everything under C:\Strawberry). It's a 64bit linker, but your
Strawberry installation is 32bit, this won't work (most likely gcc.exe and
g++.exe invoked earlier in the build where 64bit non-Strawberry programs, too).

Check the PATH in the shell where you try to build PAR::Packer:
it should contain only Windows system directories and stuff below C:\Strawberry.

This should get you past "dmake". Then "dmake test" will probably fail with

dmake: Error: -- Don't know how to make `test_dynamic'
dmake.exe: Error code 255, while making 'subdirs-test_dynamic'

Known problem, see ticket 114229 for a temporary fix.

I'm closing this ticket.

Cheers, Roderich

[Roderich Schupp via RT]

Sat May 14 11:35:53 2016: Request 114316 was acted upon.
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But, just one last question, can you give me direction on how to apply
that patch? I dont think there any instructions on that in that thread
for applying temporary fix.

It's almost to trivial to invoke the "patch" program for that
(included in Strawberry Perl), just edit myldr/Makefile.PL
in your favorite editor and drop the "test" from the SKIP option.
Then restart the build process "perl Makefile.PL" etc.

Cheers, Roderich