get "format error: bad signature" when using an .exe created by a "pp"

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Re: get "format error: bad signature" when using an .exe created by a "pp" by LanX (Saint) on Mar 15, 2021 at 15:02 UTC
are you working with zip-files? Searching this error ranks high with Zip and Archive::Zip related problems Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]
Re: get "format error: bad signature" when using an .exe created by a "pp" by swl (Prior) on Mar 15, 2021 at 21:13 UTC
Following up on the suggestion by LanX in 11129674 to search for the error, this old bug report comes up as looking relevant: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=4633. What versions of PAR::Packer and Archive::Zip are you using? Also, are you able to provide code to replicate the issue? For example: What code are you packing? What is the `pp` command you are running? Are you packing files with special characters in the name? And can you open the zip file using some other utility such as 7zip?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: get "format error: bad signature" when using an .exe created by a "pp" by levW (Beadle) on Mar 16, 2021 at 06:50 UTC
Thanks for the idea...resolved by force installing the latest Archive::Zip !	[reply]
Re^3: get "format error: bad signature" when using an .exe created by a "pp" by swl (Prior) on Mar 16, 2021 at 11:14 UTC
Good to hear it works. Not sure why you had to force install Archive::Zip, though. I just installed version 1.68 without issue on Strawberry Perl 5.30. That said, there are fails for Windows on CPAN Testers: http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Archive-Zip%201.68;os=mswin32;perl=5.30.1;reports=1	[reply]
Re: get "format error: bad signature" when using an .exe created by a "pp" by Anonymous Monk on Mar 15, 2021 at 09:21 UTC
What is the complete message? Version info?	[reply]
Re^2: get "format error: bad signature" when using an .exe created by a "pp" by levW (Beadle) on Mar 15, 2021 at 14:05 UTC
format error: bad signature: 0x48a5e326 at offset 7509226 in file D:\DOcuments\myscripts\colorserver_upd\colorserver_upd.exe at -e line 595. format error: bad signature: 0x9488813b at offset 7509461 in file D:\DOcuments\myscripts\colorserver_upd\colorserver_upd.exe at -e line 595. format error: bad signature: 0x897956fa at offset 7510312 in file D:\DOcuments\myscripts\colorserver_upd\colorserver_upd.exe at -e line 595. format error: bad signature: 0xd0e1b387 at offset 7512810 in file D:\DOcuments\myscripts\colorserver_upd\colorserver_upd.exe at -e line 595. format error: bad signature: 0xe84ac642 at offset 7513461 in file D:\DOcuments\myscripts\colorserver_upd\colorserver_upd.exe at -e line 595. ==================================================== This is perl 5, version 30, subversion 0 (v5.30.0) built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-64int	[reply]
Re^3: get "format error: bad signature" when using an .exe created by a "pp" by Anonymous Monk on Mar 15, 2021 at 22:34 UTC
Par pp versions?	[reply]
Re^4: get "format error: bad signature" when using an .exe created by a "pp" by levW (Beadle) on Mar 16, 2021 at 06:38 UTC