wcruz has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, This is my first attempt at real programming. I use active state (I think) perl 5.8.6 . I have developed a simple perlTk program to search flatfiles. I want to pack it as standalone executable. When I tried to install PAR add ons(>perl Makefile.pl), it says that it could not generate Parl.exe. Later when I tried to use pp to pack my file, it says 'failed to extract a parl from "PAR::StrippedPARL::Static" to file 'parl0BnDfN1.exe' at C:/Perl/site/lib/PAR/Packer.pm line 1149, <DATA> line 1.' and fails. Please help, Winston Cruz
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Re: Parl.exe not generated - par, packer fail
by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 19, 2007 at 08:27 UTC
    Hi wcruz,

    "I use active state (I think) perl 5.8.6"

    Running perl -v will display information about the build of perl, or try perl -V for much more information.

    Do you have a c compiler and the required build tools setup? I notice you did not use ppm to install this. See Where is the Windows binary version? from the PAR::FAQ.

    Alternatively you could look at using either CamelPack or Strawberry Perl, find out more at http://win32.perl.org.

    Hope this helps

    Martin
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