PerlApp : use threads

P0w3rK!d has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello,

When I use the following:

use threads;
use threads::shared;
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I am unable to compile an executable file using PerlApp from ActiveState Perl.

This is perl, v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
Binary build 806 provided by ActiveState Corp.
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The console outputs the following:

C:\Work>perlapp my_app.pl --verbose
PerlApp 5.1.0 build 510
Copyright (C) 1998-2003 ActiveState Corp. All rights reserved.
Commercial license for P0w3rK!d <P0w3rK!d@MovingToPluto.com>

-e syntax OK
'my_app.pl' had compilation errors.
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An error dialog appears stating perlapp.exe threw an exception before the last 2 lines of output appear. Also, the verbose mode gave me no useful information.

Does anyone know what the problem is?

Note: non-threaded code compiles okay.

Thanks :)

-P0w3rK!d

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Re: PerlApp : use threads by P0w3rK!d (Pilgrim) on May 22, 2003 at 16:47 UTC
Here's what I found on the ActiveState PDK mailing list... "It looks like you are using the Thread.pm module. PerlApp doesn't detect dependencies correctly for it; you will need to explicitly add the threads.pm module to your application: `perlapp --nocheck --add threads YourApp.pl` [download] However, you may want to change your script to use threads.pm explicitly. Thread.pm is just a wrapper for backward compatibility with older thread implementations. If you only use Perl 5.8 and later, Thread.pm is just useless bloat." -(Credit to Jan Dubois c/o PDK@listserv.ActiveState.com) I used: `C:\Work>perlapp --nocheck --add threads my_app.pl` [download] ...and it works now. Thanks Jan! :) -P0w3rK!d	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: PerlApp : use threads
by P0w3rK!d (Pilgrim) on May 22, 2003 at 16:47 UTC

"It looks like you are using the Thread.pm module. PerlApp doesn't detect dependencies correctly for it; you will need to explicitly add the threads.pm module to your application:

   perlapp --nocheck --add threads YourApp.pl
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However, you may want to change your script to use threads.pm explicitly. Thread.pm is just a wrapper for backward compatibility with older thread implementations. If you only use Perl 5.8 and later, Thread.pm is just useless bloat."

-(Credit to Jan Dubois c/o PDK@listserv.ActiveState.com)

I used:

    C:\Work>perlapp --nocheck --add threads my_app.pl
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-P0w3rK!d

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