I want to convert my perl script to an executable to run on Windows. In the past I have used perl2exe, but now I cannot get this option to work so I'm trying PAR::Packer.

However, I cannot get this to install. When I run cpan>install PAR::Packer I get the following. (I omitted all of the stuff that seemed to work) Last night I searched the web for hours and haven't found the answer. 

C:\Perl64\site\bin\gcc.exe -c -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT 
+-DWIN64 -D
CONSERVATIVE -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPERL_IMPLIC
+IT_CONTEXT
 -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -DHASATTRIBUTE -fno-strict-aliasing 
+-mms-bitfi
elds  -I"C:\Perl64\lib\CORE"  -DPARL_EXE=\"parl.exe\" -O2 main.c
windres -F pei-i386 -i winres\pp.rc -o winres\pp.res
windres -o ppresource.coff winres\pp.res
C:\Perl64\site\lib\auto\MinGW\bin\windres.exe: unexpected version stri
+ng length
68 != 32 + 8
dmake.exe:  Error code 129, while making 'ppresource.coff'
dmake.exe:  Error code 255, while making 'subdirs'
  RSCHUPP/PAR-Packer-1.013.tar.gz
  C:\Perl64\site\bin\dmake.exe -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Failed during this command:
 RSCHUPP/PAR-Packer-1.013.tar.gz              : make NO

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