Please don't apologise for the time I am spending following your suggestions, I really appreciate the time you are spending thinking through and giving me suggestions. It should be me apologising to, you for having this weird problem that you are kindly helping me out with.

On to the results of those steps...

When I tried to make test in the newly created and unpacked C:/mybuild/PAR-Packer-1.002 folder, I got the same errors.

When I submitted the long g++ command, it did not report any errors and it had executed very quickly, having generated the following file:

20/03/2010  10:53            71,235 par.exe

So I re-did the dmake test and unfortunately got the same error.

Do you know if there is any way I can test the package that coffgen.c is in, outside of doing a full blown build of PAR-Packer?

If there is, do you think it's worth me trying that?

Thank you for all your help so far

Richard

So I re-did the dmake test and unfortunately got the same error.

Did it try to rebuild par.exe and throw the same error ? Or, this time, was it trying to build static.exe ? If it was trying to build static.exe, just apply the same workaround - ie 'cd' to myldr folder, run C:\Perl\site\bin\g++.exe static.o -L"C:\Perl\lib\CORE" C:\Perl\lib\CORE\perl510.lib  -o static.exe then 'cd ..' and rerun 'dmake test'.

The only difference between the commands as I've written them, and the way they were originally run, is that I've removed the links to the standard libraries (as those links are unnecessary in this situation anyway). While I don't see that they should cause the breakage, their removal has apparently helped wrt building of par.exe.

In the meantime I'll try to work out why linking to those libraries causes the breakage. When I build PAR-Packer-1.002, the building of par.exe and static.exe doesn't link to those standard libraries - which might be the only reason it's working for me. (I'll see if I can make the build process link to those libraries - maybe then I'll get to see the same failure as you.)

What version of ExtUtils::MakeMaker are you running ? perl -MExtUtils::MakeMaker -e "print $ExtUtils::MakeMaker::VERSION" will tell you.

Cheers
Rob

Hi Rob

Thanks for that, I hadn't noticed that last set of errors were against static.exe instead of par.exe

Which means we are making some progress !! :)

So I did the workaround for static.exe "C:\Perl\site\bin\g++.exe static.o -L"C:\Perl\lib\CORE" C:\Perl\lib\CORE\perl510.lib -o static.exe"

Then I did dmake test, which resulted in the below. It is getting a lot further, now that I have built par.exe and static.exe the longhand way.

Here is what version of Makemaker I have

C:\mybuild\PAR-Packer-1.002>perl -MExtUtils::MakeMaker -e "print $ExtU
+tils::Make
Maker::VERSION
Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
6.55_02
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Do you know what I can try now?

Thank you

Richard

C:\mybuild\PAR-Packer-1.002>dmake test
dmake.exe:  Warning: -- Found file corresponding to virtual target [mk
+tmpdir.h].

dmake.exe:  Warning: -- Found file corresponding to virtual target [mk
+tmpdir.c].

dmake.exe:  Warning: -- Found file corresponding to virtual target [ma
+in.c].
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -e "chmod(oct('0600'), '..\blib\lib\PAR\StrippedP
+ARL\Static.pm');"
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe encode_append.pl static.exe ..\blib\lib\PAR\Strip
+pedPARL\Static.pm
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -e "chmod(oct('0444'), '..\blib\lib\PAR\StrippedP
+ARL\Static.pm');"
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -e "chmod(oct('0600'), '..\blib\lib\PAR\StrippedP
+ARL\Dynamic.pm');"
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe encode_append.pl par.exe ..\blib\lib\PAR\Stripped
+PARL\Dynamic.pm
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -e "chmod(oct('0444'), '..\blib\lib\PAR\StrippedP
+ARL\Dynamic.pm');"
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "-Iinc" -MExtUtils::Command -e "cp" -- script/par
+ldyn.exe blib\script\parldyn.exe
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "-Iinc" -MExtUtils::Command -e "cp" -- script/par
+l.exe blib\script\parl.exe
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "-Iinc" -MExtUtils::Command -e "cp" -- script/tkp
+p blib\script\tkpp
pl2bat.bat blib\script\tkpp
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "-Iinc" -MExtUtils::Command -e "cp" -- script/pp 
+blib\script\pp
pl2bat.bat blib\script\pp
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "-Iinc" -MExtUtils::Command -e "cp" -- script/par
+.pl blib\script\par.pl
pl2bat.bat blib\script\par.pl
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, '
+inc', 'blib\lib', 'blib\arch')" t/00-pod.t t/10-parl-generation.t  t/
+20-pp.t t/30-current_
exec.t t/40-packer_cd_option.t
t/00-pod.t ............... skipped: Set environment variable PERL_TEST
+_POD=1 to
test POD
t/10-parl-generation.t ... ok
t/20-pp.t ................ 31/34 Can't call method "remove" on an unde
+fined value at C:/Perl/site/lib/Win32/Exe.pm line 220.

#   Failed test 'pp_gui_tests
# amsg572: sub pp_gui_tests cannot system pp --gui --icon hi.ico -o he
+llo.exe hello.pl:No such file or directory:
# '
t/20-pp.t ................ 32/34 #   at automated_pp_test.pl line 8445
+.
t/20-pp.t ................ 34/34 # Looks like you failed 1 test of 34.
t/20-pp.t ................ Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
Failed 1/34 subtests
t/30-current_exec.t ...... # Please wait
t/30-current_exec.t ...... ok
t/40-packer_cd_option.t .. ok

Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/20-pp.t              (Wstat: 256 Tests: 34 Failed: 1)
  Failed test:  32
  Non-zero exit status: 1
Files=5, Tests=71, 811 wallclock secs ( 0.19 usr +  0.02 sys =  0.20 C
+PU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 1/5 test programs. 1/71 subtests failed.
dmake.exe:  Error code 255, while making 'test_dynamic'
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