Tue Sep 30 12:11:10 2014: Request 99229 was acted upon.
Transaction: Ticket created by [email protected]
Queue: PAR
Subject: Problem with PAR::Packer 1.022 on Perl 5.20.1 and earlier.
Broken in: (no value)
Severity: (no value)
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: [email protected]
Status: new
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=99229 >
Dear PAR::Packer Maintainers,
I ran into an issue when trying to build an executable from a Perl script under
Windows 7 (64 and 32 bits) using Strawberry Perl 5.20.1 (and 5.16 also) which
seems to be caused by the use of an updated version of gcc in the MinGW
package that is included in the distribution. When I wanted to run the par
generated executable on a machine where strawberry perl was not installed it
complained that libwinpthreads-1.dll was missing during the unpacking stage.
After a bit of testing the source of the problem was that myldr was not
including this library when building the executable. A change in the
Makefile.PL file as shown below fixed the problem (not very elegantly). The
missing dll breaks the portability of the executable and would ruin the purpose
of building executable distributions.
Thanks for the fantastic PAR mechanism!
Regards,
Sergio
PS: The PAR::Packer does not pass all tests either under Windows 7 so I had to
install it using the notest option. I wonder if this is related this problem
also.
Changes in myldr/Makefile.PL
< my ($libgcc, $libstdcpp);
---
> my ($libgcc, $libstdcpp, $libwpt);
248a249
> $libwpt = find_dll("libwinpthread*.$Config{so}");
261a263
> $libwpt,
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