The idea of installing the latest binutils was just to update the "binutils" component of your MinGW compiler - since that seems to be the component that's making all the unwanted noise. Now that you've removed all of MinGW, you'll need to do more than just install the binutils package.

Not to worry ... just run 'ppm remove MinGW' then 'ppm install MinGW' and then unpack binutils-2.20.1 to the C:/Perl/site/lib/auto/MinGW folder. That will overwrite the existing binutils-2.19.1 files with the binutils-2.20.1 files. Then see what happens ... I'm not all that confident it will solve the problem, but it's one thing to try.

What version of perl are you running ? - the output of perl -v (that's lower case 'v') will tell us all we need to know. If you're using an older build of ActivePerl, there could be some bug there that's preventing the build. If you're running an older 5.8.x build of ActivePerl, you could try upgrading by installing build 827 over the top of it. For older 5.10.x builds, install build 1007 over the top.

You should find a file named dmake.exe in both C:/Perl/site/bin and C:/Perl/site/lib/auto/dmake. If that's not the case then you need to ppm install it again. (You don't want 'make'.)

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^6: trying to build PAR-Packer-1.002 by syphilis
in thread trying to build PAR-Packer-1.002 by rich_d_thomas

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