Re: method "new" leads to infinite loop with 100% CPU, troubleshooting??

Actually, are you sure that it doesn't eventually complete? I did a directory listing of the DLLs on my system and I noticed that at 8 MB shell32.dll is significantly bigger than any other dll. A quick check with dumpbin shows that it contains over 51000 fixups (relocations).

So, I ran the following and left it running while I did something else, and it eventually completed after nearly 5 minutes:

c:\test>perl -MWin32::Exe 
-le"print time; $e = Win32::Exe->new( 'c:\windows\system32\shell32.dll
+' ); print time"
1219426998
1219427274
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The module uses Parse::Binary::FixedFormat and that module is just really, really slow.

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Re^2: method "new" leads to infinite loop with 100% CPU, troubleshooting?? by resistance (Beadle) on Aug 22, 2008 at 18:44 UTC
+++BrowserUk+++ thank you for pointing to this! Yes, now I see, it takes minutes(!) to extract the couple of strings from a big binary file like this shell32.dll. Unbelievable! Can you point to an another way to get File Version Information from EXE without using WinAPI? I think about brute force by finding the text strings in binary.	[reply]
Re^3: method "new" leads to infinite loop with 100% CPU, troubleshooting?? by resistance (Beadle) on Aug 22, 2008 at 19:07 UTC
found this here on perlmonks: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=287010 Win32 Fileversion info from .exe/.dll-files (16/32-bit) - takes only 0.03 second to process shell32.dll file. Great site and great members! Thanks	[reply]
Re^3: method "new" leads to infinite loop with 100% CPU, troubleshooting?? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 22, 2008 at 19:23 UTC
Which "couple of strings" do you need? If you could post the part of your code that extracts the info using Win32::Exe that would help. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. "Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."	[reply]
Re^4: method "new" leads to infinite loop with 100% CPU, troubleshooting?? by resistance (Beadle) on Aug 22, 2008 at 19:46 UTC
Which "couple of strings" do you need? http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=287010 Win32 Fileversion info from .exe/.dll-files This code does exactly what I need - extract CompanyName FileDescription FileVersion ProductVersion etc from exe/dll files. Seems that some tasks should/can be done with simple methods like this one, instead of using modules. )	[reply]