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Hi dasgar, I am having trouble installing pp utility on strawberry perl. I am getting this error: 
windres -o ppresource.coff winres\pp.res
windres: unexpected version string length 68 != 32 + 8
dmake:  Error code 129, while making 'ppresource.coff'
dmake:  Error code 255, while making 'subdirs'

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Any idea. Thank you Akhila

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Re^5: pp utility incompatibility issue with windows
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 14, 2012 at 23:41 UTC

    Any idea.

    Do  dmake realclean then report everything from  perl Makefile.PL && dmake

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      I'm encountering the same problem running perl 5.14.2 on Windows XP from a Strawberry Perl 5.14.2.1-32bit distribution.

      After running dmake realclean, here is the output that you mentioned would be helpful from perl Makefile.PL and dmake:

      C:\DwimPerl\perl\Downloads\PAR-Packer-1.013>perl Makefile.PL
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Prototype mismatch: sub main::prompt: none vs ($;$) at C:/DwimPerl/per
+l/lib/ExtU
tils/MakeMaker.pm line 219
Writing Makefile for par.exe
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
Writing Makefile for PAR::Packer
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json

C:\DwimPerl\perl\Downloads\PAR-Packer-1.013>dmake
cp lib/App/Packer/PAR.pm blib\lib\App\Packer\PAR.pm
cp lib/PAR/Packer.pm blib\lib\PAR\Packer.pm
cp lib/PAR/Filter/Obfuscate.pm blib\lib\PAR\Filter\Obfuscate.pm
cp lib/PAR/Filter/PodStrip.pm blib\lib\PAR\Filter\PodStrip.pm
cp lib/PAR/StrippedPARL/Base.pm blib\lib\PAR\StrippedPARL\Base.pm
cp lib/PAR/Filter.pm blib\lib\PAR\Filter.pm
cp lib/PAR/Filter/PatchContent.pm blib\lib\PAR\Filter\PatchContent.pm
cp lib/PAR/Filter/Bytecode.pm blib\lib\PAR\Filter\Bytecode.pm
cp lib/pp.pm blib\lib\pp.pm
cp lib/PAR/Filter/Bleach.pm blib\lib\PAR\Filter\Bleach.pm
C:\DwimPerl\perl\bin\perl.exe file2c.pl -s ..\script\par.pl my_par_pl.
+c load_my_
par_pl
C:\DwimPerl\perl\bin\perl.exe sha1.c.PL
gcc -c -s -O2 -DWIN32  -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DP
+ERL_IMPLIC
IT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -fno-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields  -I
+"C:\DwimPe
rl\perl\lib\CORE"  -DLOAD_MY_LIBGCC -DPARL_EXE=\"parl.exe\" -s -O2 mai
+n.c
windres -F pei-i386 -i winres\pp.rc -o winres\pp.res
windres -o ppresource.coff winres\pp.res
windres: unexpected version string length 68 != 32 + 8
dmake:  Error code 129, while making 'ppresource.coff'
dmake:  Error code 255, while making 'subdirs'

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        If the PAR::Packer install is failing while installing a prerequisite module, try installing that prereq module and then try installing PAR::Packer again. Also, you may need to try the force install option (cpan install -f PAR::Packer)

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        Hi, I am also facing the same issue while installing PAR::Packer. Did you get the solution?
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