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

I want to convert my perl script to an executable to run on Windows. In the past I have used perl2exe, but now I cannot get this option to work so I'm trying PAR::Packer.

However, I cannot get this to install. When I run cpan>install PAR::Packer I get the following. (I omitted all of the stuff that seemed to work) Last night I searched the web for hours and haven't found the answer. 

C:\Perl64\site\bin\gcc.exe -c -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT 
+-DWIN64 -D
CONSERVATIVE -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPERL_IMPLIC
+IT_CONTEXT
 -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -DHASATTRIBUTE -fno-strict-aliasing 
+-mms-bitfi
elds  -I"C:\Perl64\lib\CORE"  -DPARL_EXE=\"parl.exe\" -O2 main.c
windres -F pei-i386 -i winres\pp.rc -o winres\pp.res
windres -o ppresource.coff winres\pp.res
C:\Perl64\site\lib\auto\MinGW\bin\windres.exe: unexpected version stri
+ng length
68 != 32 + 8
dmake.exe:  Error code 129, while making 'ppresource.coff'
dmake.exe:  Error code 255, while making 'subdirs'
  RSCHUPP/PAR-Packer-1.013.tar.gz
  C:\Perl64\site\bin\dmake.exe -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Failed during this command:
 RSCHUPP/PAR-Packer-1.013.tar.gz              : make NO

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Re: Intalling PAR::Packer
by dasgar (Priest) on Oct 12, 2012 at 03:40 UTC

    Which Perl distribution are you using? Based on the folder name "Perl64", I'm assuming that you're using a 64-bit Perl, is that correct?

    Unless you need the 64-bit features (64 bit integers, etc.), you can use 32-bit Perl just fine on 64-bit Windows. If you're willing to go with 32-bit Perl, you check out the information that I shared at Re: Need help using CPan's pp - PAR Packager. So far, I personally haven't had problems installing PAR::Packer on 32-bit versions ActiveState Perl and Strawberry Perl.

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      Thanks guys! I will try the 32-bit perl. Which version of Perl are you using?
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        Unfortunately, I haven't been consistent on which version and distribution that I have been using. Between my personal system and systems at work, I've used ActiveState's ActivePerl, Strawberry Perl, and DWIM Perl. I've primarily been using versions 5.12 and up.

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Re: Intalling PAR::Packer
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 12, 2012 at 00:35 UTC
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