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Interesting. I installed PAR::Packer a couple of months ago on Windows 10 against 64 bit Strawberry Perl without trouble. I just tried installing it on a different Windows 10 machine and it failed:

This is perl 5, version 32, subversion 0 (v5.32.0) built for MSWin32-x
+64-multi-thread

...
gmake[1]: Entering directory 'C:/STRAWB~1/cpan/build/PAR-Packer-1.050-
+1/myldr'
Makefile:870: warning: overriding recipe for target '.c.o'
Makefile:340: warning: ignoring old recipe for target '.c.o'
"C:\Strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe" par_pl2c.pl my_par_pl < ..\script\pa
+r.pl > my_par_pl.c
gcc -c -DWIN32 -DWIN64 -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPT
+S -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -fwrapv -f
+no-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields  -I"C:\STRAWB~1\perl\lib\CORE"  -DL
+DLIBPTHNAME=\"\" -DPARL_EXE=\"parl.exe\" -DPAR_PACKER_VERSION=\"1.050
+\" -s -O2 main.c
In file included from C:/STRAWB~1/perl/lib/CORE/perl.h:6158,
                 from main.c:2:
C:/STRAWB~1/perl/lib/CORE/inline.h: In function `Perl_is_utf8_invarian
+t_string_loc':
C:/STRAWB~1/perl/lib/CORE/inline.h:451: warning: cast from pointer to 
+integer of different size
C:/STRAWB~1/perl/lib/CORE/inline.h:451: warning: cast from pointer to 
+integer of different size
C:/STRAWB~1/perl/lib/CORE/inline.h:451: warning: cast from pointer to 
+integer of different size
C:/STRAWB~1/perl/lib/CORE/inline.h:454: warning: cast from pointer to 
+integer of different size
C:/STRAWB~1/perl/lib/CORE/inline.h:459: warning: cast from pointer to 
+integer of different size
gcc -c -DWIN32 -DWIN64 -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPT
+S -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -fwrapv -f
+no-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields  -I"C:\STRAWB~1\perl\lib\CORE"  -DL
+DLIBPTHNAME=\"\" -DPARL_EXE=\"parl.exe\" -DPAR_PACKER_VERSION=\"1.050
+\" -s -O2 -DBYTEORDER=0x12345678 -DU64TYPE="unsigned long long" sha1.
+c
windres -i winres/pp.rc -o ppresource.coff --input-format=rc --output-
+format=coff --target=pe-x86-64
C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\MinGW\bin\windres.exe: Can't detect target endia
+ness and architecture.
gmake[1]: *** [Makefile:880: ppresource.coff] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory 'C:/STRAWB~1/cpan/build/PAR-Packer-1.050-1
+/myldr'
gmake: *** [Makefile:545: subdirs] Error 2
  RSCHUPP/PAR-Packer-1.050.tar.gz
  C:\STRAWB~1\c\bin\gmake.exe -- NOT OK
Stopping: 'install' failed for 'PAR::Packer'.
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The warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size messages look like a red flag and Can't detect target endianess and architecture. seems to be the killer. Maybe Rob will come to the rescue? In the mean time switching to a 32 bit Perl may work around the issue? I note there are passes on CPAN Testers so maybe there is a prerequisite issue of some sort?

Optimising for fewest key strokes only makes sense transmitting to Pluto or beyond

In reply to Re: PAR::Packer fails to install by GrandFather
in thread PAR::Packer fails to install by BernieC

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