PAR problems Win32 (Can't Spawn, line 372) (solved)

[John Bokma]

ASPerl: v5.8.3 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread

I installed PAR today. I downloaded PAR-0.85.tar.gz

Used ppm to install Module::ScanDeps, Parse::Binary, Win32::Exe,
PAR:ist
perl Makefile.pl
nmake test
nmake install

Since it didn't find parl, I read the FAQ:
http://par.perl.org/index.cgi?FAQ

Used bribes:

ppm> upgrade -install PAR
PAR 0.75: new version 0.85 available in bribes
====================
Upgrade 'PAR' version 0.75 in ActivePerl 5.8.3.809.
====================
Downloaded 778464 bytes.
Extracting 22/22: blib/arch/auto/PAR/.exists
Successfully upgraded PAR version 0.75 in ActivePerl 5.8.3.809.
ppm> quit



After many attempst, I kept getting 0.75, so I did the following:


ppm> install http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/PAR-Dist.ppd
====================
Install 'PAR-Dist' version 0.07 in ActivePerl 5.8.3.809.
====================
Downloaded 6561 bytes.
Extracting 19/19: blib/lib/PAR/Dist.pm
Installing C:\Perl\html\site\lib\PAR\Dist.html
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\PAR\Dist.pm
Successfully installed PAR-Dist version 0.07 in ActivePerl 5.8.3.809.

ppm> install http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/PAR.ppd
====================
Install 'File-Temp' version 0.12 in ActivePerl 5.8.3.809.
====================
Downloaded 21438 bytes.
Extracting 5/5: blib/arch/auto/File/Temp/.exists
Installing C:\Perl\html\site\lib\File\Temp.html
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\File\Temp.pm
Successfully installed File-Temp version 0.12 in ActivePerl 5.8.3.809.
====================
Install 'PAR' version 0.85 in ActivePerl 5.8.3.809.
====================
Downloaded 852069 bytes.
Extracting 61/61: blib/script/tkpp.bat
Installing C:\Perl\html\bin\par.html

[ ... ]

Installing C:\Perl\bin\tkpp
Installing C:\Perl\bin\tkpp.bat
Successfully installed PAR version 0.85 in ActivePerl 5.8.3.809.
ppm>


Seems to work :-D I guess you can jump to the part after the "many
attempts". No idea what I did wrong in the first place (probably 12 hrs
perl programming the prev day doesn't help either).

 

[burlo.stumproot]

ASPerl: v5.8.3 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread

After many attempst, I kept getting 0.75, so I did the following:

Had the same problem, but I had to remove PAR 0.75 with
ppm> remove PAR-Dist
ppm> remove PAR

first to get it to work.
And then the following worked as expected.

ppm> install http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/PAR-Dist.ppd

ppm> install http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/PAR.ppd

<snipped ppm output>

/Stumproot

 

[John Bokma]

wrote:

Had the same problem, but I had to remove PAR 0.75 with
ppm> remove PAR-Dist
ppm> remove PAR

Yes, I did the same, apologies for being incomplete :-D.

first to get it to work.
And then the following worked as expected.

Yes. I can recommend people to have a peek at PAR. It works very nice, if
you get it working :-D. Now I can give people some Perl stuff without
having them downloading and installing Perl (which they consider too
difficult).