Re: Installing PAR 0.85 on Windows from DOS box

Aha!  There is no such binary
     PAR-0.85-MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8.3.par

However, there is a
     PAR-0.85-MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8.4.par
at
     http://aut.dyndns.org/par/PAR-0.85-MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8.4.par

I have Perl 5.8.4 on my Windows machine.

My advice is to upgrade to Perl 5.8.4, then download the above into the
extraction directory, and then

perl Makefile.PL
nmake
nmake install

then it should work.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Murphy" <murphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Par Maillist" <par@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 1:09 AM
Subject: Installing PAR 0.85 on Windows from DOS box


> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install PAR with the latest Activestate Perl (v5.8.3) on
> WindowsXP, but so far without a success. Here is what I'm getting:
>
>     D:\Work\Programming\Par\PAR-0.85>perl Makefile.PL
>     *** ExtUtils::AutoInstall version 0.59
>     *** Checking for dependencies...
>     [Core Features]
>     - File::Temp       ...loaded. (0.14 >= 0.05)
>     - Compress::Zlib   ...loaded. (1.22 >= 1.16)
>     - Archive::Zip     ...loaded. (1.13 >= 1)
>     - Module::ScanDeps ...loaded. (0.48 >= 0.45)
>     - PAR::Dist        ...loaded. (0.07 >= 0.06)
>     [Windows --icon and --info support]
>     - Parse::Binary    ...loaded. (0.08 >= 0.04)
>     - Win32::Exe       ...loaded. (0.08 >= 0.04)
>     *** ExtUtils::AutoInstall configuration finished.
>     Fetching 'PAR-0.85-MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8.3.par' from
>     www.cpan.org... Fetching failed:
>     No compiler found, won't generate 'script/parl.exe'!
>     Unable to find a perl 5 (by these names: C:\Program
>     Files\Devel\Perl\bin\perl.exe perl.exe perl5.exe perl5.8.3.exe
>     miniperl.exe, in these dirs: C:\Program Files\Devel\Perl\bin\ C:\
>     WINDOWS\system32 C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem C:\Program
>     Files\Tools\ATI Control Panel C:\vim\vim62 "C:\Program
>     Files\Tools\Norton SystemWorks\Norton Ghost\" C:\Program File
>     s\Music\VDMSound c:\wget C:\Program Files\Internet\OpenSSH\bin
>     C:\Program Files\Devel\Perl\bin)
>     Writing Makefile for PAR
>
> Does it mean that PAR will work only with a Perl 5.6 ?
>
> Regards,
> Murphy
>
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