Re: [rt.cpan.org #118053] Problem with packed perl archive for biber on 64-bit Cygwin

Sun Sep 25 11:24:43 2016: Request 118053 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by [email protected]
       Queue: PAR-Packer
     Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #118053] Problem with packed perl archive for biber on 64-bit Cygwin
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 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=118053 >




On 9/25/2016 3:06 AM, Roderich Schupp via RT wrote:
> <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=118053 >
>
> On 2016-09-24 21:06:22, [email protected] wrote:
>> On 9/23/2016 3:51 PM, Bugs in PAR-Packer via RT wrote:
>> I understand a little better how the packed executable is supposed to
>> work.  First the embedded files are extracted, which are a perl
>> interpreter (named biber) and cygperl5_24.dll in; it's then supposed
>> to
>> be possible to run the extracted biber, which will extract the rest of
>> the files.  Roderich, is this right?
>
> Your analysis is correct.
>
>> So it seems that the solution should be to add cygcrypt-0.dll as an
>> embedded file.
>
> Yes. Try changing line 43 of myldr/embed_files.pl in the PAR::Packer source to
>
>             *is_system_lib = sub { shift =~ m{^/usr/bin/(?!cygcrypt\b)|^\Q$system_root\E/}i };
>
> i.e. /usr/bin/cygcrypt-0.dll is _not_ regarded as a "system library" anymore.
> Then re-build and install PAR:Packer and re-pack biber.
>
> Cheers, Roderich

Thanks, that fixes it.

Ken