Tue Sep 30 14:36:20 2014: Request 99231 was acted upon.
Transaction: Ticket created by [email protected]
       Queue: PAR-Packer
     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=99231 >


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: 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);
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>     $libwpt = find_dll("libwinpthread*.$Config{so}");
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>       $libwpt,


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