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

Hi all. I am about as much as a novice to all of this as they come. I'm learning perl with Simon Cozens' "Beginning Perl".

My latest challenge is to get pp installed on my desktop, which is running Windows Vista. I downloaded PAR-Packer last night.

I have the most recent versions of Strawberry Perl and Dev-CPP installed on my D drive.

(I see someone else has posted recently with issues around PAR-Packer and Strawberry, although theirs is the portable version.)

When I run perl Makefile.pl, I get the following warnings:

Warning: prerequisite Getopt::ArgvFile 1.07 not found.
Warning: prerequisite Module::ScanDeps 0.98 not found.
... Detected uninstalled Perl.  Trying to continue.
Have \strawb~1\perl\lib
Want \strawberry\perl\lib
Note (probably harmless): No library found for libperl512.a
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lmoldname
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lkernel32
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -luser32
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lgdi32
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lwinspool
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lcomdlg32
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -ladvapi32
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lshell32
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lole32
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -loleaut32
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lnetapi32
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -luuid
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lws2_32
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lmpr
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lwinmm
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lversion
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lodbc32
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lodbccp32
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lcomctl32
Writing Makefile for the par.exe program
Writing Makefile for PAR::Packer

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My install appears to expect me to run dmake, so I then run dmake test:

Skip blib\lib\App\Packer\PAR.pm (unchanged)
Skip blib\lib\PAR\Packer.pm (unchanged)
Skip blib\lib\PAR\Filter\Obfuscate.pm (unchanged)
Skip blib\lib\PAR\Filter\PodStrip.pm (unchanged)
Skip blib\lib\PAR\StrippedPARL\Base.pm (unchanged)
Skip blib\lib\PAR\Filter.pm (unchanged)
Skip blib\lib\PAR\Filter\PatchContent.pm (unchanged)
Skip blib\lib\PAR\StrippedPARL\Dynamic.pm (unchanged)
Skip blib\lib\PAR\Filter\Bytecode.pm (unchanged)
Skip blib\lib\pp.pm (unchanged)
Skip blib\lib\PAR\Filter\Bleach.pm (unchanged)
Skip blib\lib\PAR\StrippedPARL\Static.pm (unchanged)
gcc -c -s -O2 -DWIN32 -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT  -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPERL_IM
+PLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -fno-strict-aliasing -mms-bitf
ields -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX  -I"C:\strawberry\perl\lib\CORE"  -DPARL_E
+XE=\"parl.exe\" -s -O2 main.c
main.c:1:20: error: EXTERN.h: No such file or directory
main.c:2:18: error: perl.h: No such file or directory
main.c:3:18: error: XSUB.h: No such file or directory
In file included from main.c:4:
perlxsi.c:4: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' b
+efore 'void'
perlxsi.c:6: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' b
+efore 'void'
perlxsi.c:7: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' b
+efore 'void'
perlxsi.c:9: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' b
+efore 'void'
main.c:12: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' bef
+ore '*' token
In file included from main.c:54:
internals.c:1: error: expected ')' before 'void'
internals.c: In function 'XS':
internals.c:11: error: 'par_redo_stack' undeclared (first use in this 
+function)
internals.c:11: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only on
+ce
internals.c:11: error: for each function it appears in.)
internals.c: At top level:
internals.c:14: error: redefinition of 'XS'
internals.c:9: note: previous definition of 'XS' was here
internals.c: In function 'XS':
internals.c:15: error: 'GV' undeclared (first use in this function)
internals.c:15: error: 'tmpgv' undeclared (first use in this function)
internals.c:16: error: 'AV' undeclared (first use in this function)
internals.c:16: error: 'tmpav' undeclared (first use in this function)
internals.c:17: error: 'SV' undeclared (first use in this function)
internals.c:17: error: 'svp' undeclared (first use in this function)
internals.c:18: error: 'tmpsv' undeclared (first use in this function)
internals.c:23: error: 'TAINT' undeclared (first use in this function)
internals.c:30: error: 'SVt_PVAV' undeclared (first use in this functi
+on)
internals.c:45: error: 'SVt_PV' undeclared (first use in this function
+)
internals.c:99: error: 'TAINT_NOT' undeclared (first use in this funct
+ion)
internals.c:102: error: 'PL_compcv' undeclared (first use in this func
+tion)
internals.c: In function 'par_xs_init':
internals.c:124: error: 'aTHX' undeclared (first use in this function)
internals.c:125: error: 'XS_Internals_PAR_BOOT' undeclared (first use 
+in this function)
main.c: In function 'main':
main.c:84: error: 'PL_do_undump' undeclared (first use in this functio
+n)
main.c:85: error: 'my_perl' undeclared (first use in this function)
main.c:89: error: 'PL_perl_destruct_level' undeclared (first use in th
+is function)
main.c:114: error: expected expression before 'char'
dmake:  Error code 129, while making 'main.o'
dmake:  Error code 255, while making 'subdirs'

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Could the problem be that it is looking for Strawberry in the C drive? If so, why?

Thanks for any pointers.

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Re: Trying to compile PAR-Packer with Strawberry and Dev-Cpp installed
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jan 24, 2011 at 05:56 UTC
    Could the problem be that it is looking for Strawberry in the C drive?

    Yes - that's the problem. The -I"C:\strawberry\perl\lib\CORE" switch means that the build process will look for EXTERN.h, perl.h and XSUB.h in C:\strawberry\perl\lib\CORE ... and of course they're not there.

    If so, why?

    C:\strawberry\perl\lib\CORE is the default location for Strawberry Perl. If you want to install it somewhere else, there are steps you have to take. Switch to the 'strawberry' folder and run: 
    perl relocation.pl

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    That might fix things.

    Cheers,
    Rob
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      relocation.pl should automatically if you're installing using an installer
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Re: Trying to compile PAR-Packer with Strawberry and Dev-Cpp installed
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 23, 2011 at 23:52 UTC
    I have the most recent versions of Strawberry Perl and Dev-CPP installed on my D drive.

    Whats that mean?

    Could the problem be that it is looking for Strawberry in the C drive? If so, why?

    No.

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      Whats that mean?

      It means Anonymous Monk has the Strawberry Perl distribution of Perl for Windows and the Bloodshed Dev-C++ (MinGW) compiler for Windows installed on the D: drive of his or her computer. It means Anonymous Monk has the most recent versions of these software packages installed on his or her computer. Anonymous Monk is simply and plainly stating what his or her compilation environment is.

      No.

      Please explain.

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        It means Anonymous Monk has the Strawberry Perl distribution...

        There are 8 different most recent versions listed, so it doesn't mean anything

        No. Please explain.

        Did you ask the question?

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