Re: Getting Gtk3 to work with PAR

I don't know if this helps, but I apply some workaround patches to 
PAR::Heavy to get my Gtk2 based application to work.

See https://github.com/shawnlaffan/biodiverse/tree/master/etc/pp

This is not a generic solution, but the resulting PAR exe files do work.

When distributed, the gtk directory is added with the par exe file, and 
its bin directory is added to the path at startup using a BEGIN block so 
that libglib-2.0-0.dll etc are found.  (I have not yet got around to 
packing them using pp --link).

Shawn.




On 14/06/2016 07:46, Roderich Schupp wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Zakariyya Mughal 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     $ objdump.exe -ax
>     "C:\msys64\tmp\par-7a616b69\cache-b75d584224b1a1061779c0bb91d380c83ae4a68e\79d2d23b.dll"
>     | grep "DLL Name"
>                 ...
>                 DLL Name: Cairo.dll
>                 DLL Name: Glib.dll
>
>     I see that the same problem from the mailing list thread is still
>     present where the DLL references other DLLs that may have already been
>     loaded.
>
>
> Correct.
>
>     If the problem is that a DLL is being loaded twice (with a different
>     name), then why not keep a package variable to cache this and skip the
>     step if it has already been loaded?
>
>
> Because we don't know that this has happened - one copy is loaded by 
> the OS without any intervention from Perl. Sorry, it looks like 
> there's still no solution for this problem [1].
>
> Cheers, Roderich
>
> [1] ... except teaching PAR::Packer to stop extracting and loading 
> "glue" DLLs with mangled names.
>