PERL Beginners - PAR-PP package on Windows

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PAR-PP package on Windows

Anders

2007-11-16, 8:00 am

I have installed PP (PAR-Package) under OS/X and it works fine

Under Windows i use ActiveState's PERL and PPM manager to
install PAR, it works fine and it founds extra package etc..

But when i open a terminal and try
pp -o hello.exe hello.pl

It just say pp not found...

And i can't found any under c:\perl

Any ide..

// Anders

Martin Barth

2007-11-16, 8:00 am

Hi,

I am trying the same thing, too.
this describes why there is no pp.

http://par.perl.org/wiki/FAQ#Why_do..._pp_any_more.3F

if you have a solution please show it to us :)

Regards, Martin

On 9:03:00 16/11/2007 anders <anders.u.persson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have installed PP (PAR-Package) under OS/X and it works fine
>
> Under Windows i use ActiveState's PERL and PPM manager to
> install PAR, it works fine and it founds extra package etc..
>
> But when i open a terminal and try
> pp -o hello.exe hello.pl
>
> It just say pp not found...
>
> And i can't found any under c:\perl
>
> Any ide..
>
>
> // Anders
>
>
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Chas. Owens

2007-11-16, 8:00 am

On Nov 16, 2007 3:03 AM, anders <anders.u.persson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have installed PP (PAR-Package) under OS/X and it works fine
>
> Under Windows i use ActiveState's PERL and PPM manager to
> install PAR, it works fine and it founds extra package etc..
snip

For some reason (possibly because they have a competing product),
ActiveState does not provide a working copy of PAR and PAR::Packer.
You will need to install those modules with CPAN (or install them
yourself).

Martin Barth

2007-11-16, 8:00 am

anders accedently only worte a usefull mail to me:
anders <anders.u.persson@gmail.com> wrote

Hi!
Tanks for pointing out the error
I have solve it by adding a extra resource (activestate was not up-to-
date)

In ppm manager a added
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/package.xml

And select show-all package
and select/installed Par-Packer (version 0.970)

// Anders

Anders

2007-11-16, 7:01 pm

On 16 Nov, 11:55, mar...@senfdax.de (Martin Barth) wrote:[color=darkred]
> Hi,
>
> I am trying the same thing, too.
> this describes why there is no pp.
>
> http://par.perl.org/wiki/FAQ#Why_do..._pp_any_more.3F
>
> if you have a solution please show it to us :)
>
> Regards, Martin
>
> On 9:03:00 16/11/2007 anders <anders.u.pers...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Tanks for leadning me on the rihts track, and i found that ActiveState
package was
not up-to-date

My solution to get pp on windows was
1. Open PPM tools
Under
EDIT-> PREFERENS Tab: Repositories
ADD
Name <Any name etc more Stuff>
Location: http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/

2. Press OK
3. View -> All package
4- Select PAR-Packer version 0.976
5. Install

The PP program is found on my machine under
c:\perl\site\bin

Work for me..

Anders

2007-11-16, 7:01 pm

On 16 Nov, 11:55, mar...@senfdax.de (Martin Barth) wrote:[color=darkred]
> Hi,
>
> I am trying the same thing, too.
> this describes why there is no pp.
>
> http://par.perl.org/wiki/FAQ#Why_do..._pp_any_more.3F
>
> if you have a solution please show it to us :)
>
> Regards, Martin
>
> On 9:03:00 16/11/2007 anders <anders.u.pers...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Hi!
Tanks for pointing out the error
I have solve it by adding a extra resource (activestate was not up-to-
date)

In ppm manager a added
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/package.xml

And select show-all package
and select/installed Par-Packer (version 0.970)

// Anders

Jenda Krynicky

2007-11-18, 10:00 pm

Date sent: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:25:25 -0500
From: "Chas. Owens" <chas.owens@gmail.com>
To: anders <anders.u.persson@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: PAR-PP package on Windows
Copies to: beginners@perl.org

> On Nov 16, 2007 3:03 AM, anders <anders.u.persson@gmail.com> wrote:
> snip
>
> For some reason (possibly because they have a competing product),
> ActiveState does not provide a working copy of PAR and PAR::Packer.

I don't think that's the reason. The automatic build script
apparently failed to build PAR::Packer:
http://ppm.activestate.com/BuildSta...indows-5.8/PAR-
Packer-0.976.txt

See http://ppm.activestate.com/BuildStatus/5.8.html
if you wonder why isn't a CPAN module included in the ActiveState
repository.

Seems to me like ActiveState works with the (seemingly correct)
assumption that if a module that fails to build automatically really
is popular, someone who runs a (much smaller) repository of handbuilt
modules will provide it.

In case of PAR::Packer it's eg. in http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/

(Though at the moment it seems they are having some problems with the
build process for HPUX PA-RISC 64. Everything seems to fail.)

Jenda
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