[rt.cpan.org #114316] PAR::Packer not installing

Fri May 13 04:36:52 2016: Request 114316 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by RSCHUPP
       Queue: PAR
     Subject: PAR::Packer not installing
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       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: [email protected]
      Status: open
 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=114316 >


On 2016-05-12 15:28:39, [email protected] wrote:
> I re-installed perl v5.24.0, this time I installed  versions of
> Getopt::ArgvFile(v 1.07, not latest, because this version was
> mentioned as pre-requisite) and Module::ScanDeps (latest version as

Why did you do this, the version of Getopt::ArgvFile has obviously nothing to do
with your problem. Randomly installing and de-installing stuff won't help
either...

> ...
> C:/TDM-GCC-64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/4.9.2/../../../../x86_64-w64-min
> gw32/bin/ld.exe: i386 architecture of input file `ppresource.coff' is
> incompatible with i386:x86-64 output

You have a broken setup: this ld.exe is NOT from the Strawberry installation
(which has everything under C:\Strawberry). It's a 64bit linker, but your
Strawberry installation is 32bit, this won't work (most likely gcc.exe and
g++.exe invoked earlier in the build where 64bit non-Strawberry programs, too).

Check the PATH in the shell where you try to build PAR::Packer:
it should contain only Windows system directories and stuff below C:\Strawberry.

This should get you past "dmake". Then "dmake test" will probably fail with

dmake: Error: -- Don't know how to make `test_dynamic' 
dmake.exe: Error code 255, while making 'subdirs-test_dynamic'

Known problem, see ticket 114229 for a temporary fix.

I'm closing this ticket.

Cheers, Roderich