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Thanks so much -- that seems to have done it! The dll's had been in the PAR file, but apparently not in the right path. This did the trick. Thanks again! Alan Stewart wrote: >On 23 Dec 2004 at 13:24, Mike Schroeder wrote: > > > >>I've been using PAR with wxPerl for quite a while and all seems fine. I >>just updated my win2k build box to PAR 0.86 and now things break (PAR >>0.86 seems to work fine in Linux). Using the minimal.pl sample from >>wxPerl I try: >> >>pp -o minwx.exe minimal.pl >> >>And it builds minwx.exe without errors. When I try to run minwx.exe >>though, I first get a "Unable to Locate DLL" popup box that says: >> >>The dynamic link library wxmsw252u_adv_vc_custom.dll could not be found >>in the specified path >>C:\DOCUME~1\MIKESC~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\par-Mike_Schroeder\cache-1103829904;.; >>C:\WINNT\System32;C:\WINNT\system;C:\WINNT; >>C:\DOCUME~1\MIKESC~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\par-Mike_Schroeder\cache-1103829904; >>C:\Perl\bin\;C:\WINNT\System32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem. >> >>And on the console, I get: >> >>C:\src>minwx.exe >>Can't load >>'C:\DOCUME~1\MIKESC~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\par-Mike_Schroeder\cache-11038299 >>04\2cb94e35.dll' for module Wx: load_file:The specified module could not >>be foun >>d at C:/aperl58/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 231. >> at ../blib/lib/PAR/Heavy.pm line 107 >>Compilation failed in require at script/minimal.pl line 14. >>BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at script/minimal.pl line 14. >> >>However, the offending dll (wxmsw252u_adv_vc_custom.dll) is indeed in >>the exe (double checked with winzip) in the lib\auto\Wx\ directory. >> >>I also ran the automted_pp_test.pl and it is fine (except for test 31 i >>think). >> >>My next test was to go back to an older version of PAR -- the >>ActiveState repository had 0.75 (eek) -- but it at least built >>functional wxPerl apps. >> >>Is this a bug in PAR 0.86, or do I have a weird build environment? >> >> > >PAR 0.86 has some changes to eliminate redundant unpacking, but that means that any DLL >that is loaded indirectly by another DLL, rather than loaded by a Perl module needs to >be packed with the -l option so it will be packed in a shared lib directory and >unpacked into the temp directory next to the DLL that loads it, where it can be found. > > pp -l <full_path>/wxmsw252u_adv_vc_custom.dll -o minwx.exe minimal.pl > >Alan Stewart > > >Thread Previous | Thread Next