Hi Monks!

I'm trying to make stand-alone executables using "pp" on the latest Strawberry Perl (Vista x64). The compile phase seems to be ok, the problem starts when I try to run the generated EXE... it hangs and hangs...

pp seems to extract everything into cache folders located at C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Local\Temp\par-<Username> and then just sleeps. An error message or anything would have been nice at least.

Any feedback welcome :(
pp -v -o main.exe main.pl C:\strawberry\perl\bin/pp: Packing main.pl C:\strawberry\perl\bin/pp: Generating a fresh 'parl'. C:\strawberry\perl\bin/pp: Running parlkCl5T4t.exe -B -Omain.exe ppPYv +1x.par Packing "File/Find.pm"... Written as "File/Find.pm" Packing "File/Glob.pm"... Written as "File/Glob.pm" Packing "File/GlobMapper.pm"... Written as "File/GlobMapper.pm" Packing "File/Path.pm"... Written as "File/Path.pm" Packing "File/Spec.pm"... Written as "File/Spec.pm" Packing "File/Spec/Unix.pm"... Written as "File/Spec/Unix.pm" Packing "File/Spec/Win32.pm"... Written as "File/Spec/Win32.pm" Packing "File/Temp.pm"... Written as "File/Temp.pm" Packing "FileHandle.pm"... Written as "FileHandle.pm" Packing "IO.pm"... Written as "IO.pm" Packing "IO/Compress/Adapter/Deflate.pm"... Written as "IO/Compress/Adapter/Deflate.pm" Packing "IO/Compress/Base.pm"... Written as "IO/Compress/Base.pm" Packing "IO/Compress/Base/Common.pm"... Written as "IO/Compress/Base/Common.pm" Packing "IO/Compress/Gzip.pm"... Written as "IO/Compress/Gzip.pm" Packing "IO/Compress/Gzip/Constants.pm"... Written as "IO/Compress/Gzip/Constants.pm" Packing "IO/Compress/RawDeflate.pm"... Written as "IO/Compress/RawDeflate.pm" Packing "IO/Compress/Zlib/Extra.pm"... Written as "IO/Compress/Zlib/Extra.pm" Packing "IO/File.pm"... Written as "IO/File.pm" Packing "IO/Handle.pm"... Written as "IO/Handle.pm" Packing "IO/Seekable.pm"... Written as "IO/Seekable.pm" Packing "IO/Uncompress/Adapter/Inflate.pm"... Written as "IO/Uncompress/Adapter/Inflate.pm" Packing "IO/Uncompress/Base.pm"... Written as "IO/Uncompress/Base.pm" Packing "IO/Uncompress/Gunzip.pm"... Written as "IO/Uncompress/Gunzip.pm" Packing "IO/Uncompress/RawInflate.pm"... Written as "IO/Uncompress/RawInflate.pm" Packing "List/Util.pm"... Written as "List/Util.pm" Packing "Scalar/Util.pm"... Written as "Scalar/Util.pm" Packing "SelectSaver.pm"... Written as "SelectSaver.pm" Packing "Symbol.pm"... Written as "Symbol.pm" Packing "Tie/Hash/NamedCapture.pm"... Written as "Tie/Hash/NamedCapture.pm" Packing "Time/Local.pm"... Written as "Time/Local.pm" Packing "UNIVERSAL.pm"... Written as "UNIVERSAL.pm" Packing "Win32.pm"... Written as "Win32.pm" Packing "XSLoader.pm"... Written as "XSLoader.pm" Packing "auto/Compress/Raw/Zlib/autosplit.ix"... Written as "auto/Compress/Raw/Zlib/autosplit.ix" Packing "auto/Compress/Zlib/autosplit.ix"... Written as "auto/Compress/Zlib/autosplit.ix" Packing "auto/DynaLoader/dl_findfile.al"... Written as "auto/DynaLoader/dl_findfile.al" Packing "base.pm"... Written as "base.pm" Packing "bytes.pm"... Written as "bytes.pm" Packing "constant.pm"... Written as "constant.pm" Packing "integer.pm"... Written as "integer.pm" Packing "lib.pm"... Written as "lib.pm" Packing "overload.pm"... Written as "overload.pm" Packing "re.pm"... Written as "re.pm" Packing "strict.pm"... Written as "strict.pm" Packing "utf8.pm"... Written as "utf8.pm" Packing "vars.pm"... Written as "vars.pm" Packing "warnings.pm"... Written as "warnings.pm" Packing "warnings/register.pm"... Written as "warnings/register.pm" Packing "Archive/Zip.pm"... Written as "Archive/Zip.pm" Packing "Archive/Zip/Archive.pm"... Written as "Archive/Zip/Archive.pm" Packing "Archive/Zip/DirectoryMember.pm"... Written as "Archive/Zip/DirectoryMember.pm" Packing "Archive/Zip/FileMember.pm"... Written as "Archive/Zip/FileMember.pm" Packing "Archive/Zip/Member.pm"... Written as "Archive/Zip/Member.pm" Packing "Archive/Zip/NewFileMember.pm"... Written as "Archive/Zip/NewFileMember.pm" Packing "Archive/Zip/StringMember.pm"... Written as "Archive/Zip/StringMember.pm" Packing "Archive/Zip/ZipFileMember.pm"... Written as "Archive/Zip/ZipFileMember.pm" Packing "PAR.pm"... Written as "PAR.pm" Packing "PAR/Dist.pm"... Written as "PAR/Dist.pm" Packing "PAR/Filter.pm"... Written as "PAR/Filter.pm" Packing "PAR/Filter/PodStrip.pm"... Written as "PAR/Filter/PodStrip.pm" Packing "PAR/Heavy.pm"... Written as "PAR/Heavy.pm" Packing "PAR/SetupProgname.pm"... Written as "PAR/SetupProgname.pm" Packing "PAR/SetupTemp.pm"... Written as "PAR/SetupTemp.pm" Packing "Carp.pm"... Written as "Carp.pm" Packing "AutoLoader.pm"... Written as "AutoLoader.pm" Packing "Carp/Heavy.pm"... Written as "Carp/Heavy.pm" Packing "Compress/Raw/Zlib.pm"... Written as "Compress/Raw/Zlib.pm" Packing "Compress/Zlib.pm"... Written as "Compress/Zlib.pm" Packing "Config.pm"... Written as "Config.pm" Packing "Config_heavy.pl"... Written as "Config_heavy.pl" Packing "Cwd.pm"... Written as "Cwd.pm" Packing "DynaLoader.pm"... Written as "DynaLoader.pm" Packing "Errno.pm"... Written as "Errno.pm" Packing "Exporter.pm"... Written as "Exporter.pm" Packing "Exporter/Heavy.pm"... Written as "Exporter/Heavy.pm" Packing "Fcntl.pm"... Written as "Fcntl.pm" Packing "File/Basename.pm"... Written as "File/Basename.pm" Packing "File/Copy.pm"... Written as "File/Copy.pm" Packing "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\par-Admin\cache-e308836c0b6 +b3a91cb32a 1998a5ee21358b73778/4680d318.dll"... Written as "auto/Cwd/Cwd.dll" Packing "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\par-Admin\cache-e308836c0b6 +b3a91cb32a 1998a5ee21358b73778/7dcb5fa7.dll"... Written as "auto/IO/IO.dll" Packing "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\par-Admin\cache-e308836c0b6 +b3a91cb32a 1998a5ee21358b73778/87816a68.dll"... Written as "auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.dll" Packing "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\par-Admin\cache-e308836c0b6 +b3a91cb32a 1998a5ee21358b73778/a2b30cb8.dll"... Written as "auto/File/Glob/Glob.dll" Packing "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\par-Admin\cache-e308836c0b6 +b3a91cb32a 1998a5ee21358b73778/a79503b5.dll"... Written as "auto/Win32/Win32.dll" Packing "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\par-Admin\cache-e308836c0b6 +b3a91cb32a 1998a5ee21358b73778/a9c8b3d3.dll"... Written as "auto/List/Util/Util.dll" Packing "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\par-Admin\cache-e308836c0b6 +b3a91cb32a 1998a5ee21358b73778/d22934cd.dll"... Written as "auto/Compress/Raw/Zlib/Zlib.dll"

In reply to pp (PAR::Packer) packed programs just hang by javahater

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