PAR/PP on Windows XP with ActiveState

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Date: 02/03/05 

Date: 3 Feb 2005 05:30:33 -0800

I am trying to build an EXE without the Perl DLL included. I run my
make.bat which contains:

pp --icon app.ico -d -o popups.exe popups.pl

And it errors out with this:

Goto undefined subroutine &DynaLoader::bootstrap_inherit at
C:/aperl58/lib/XSLoa
der.pm line 95.
Compilation failed in require at C:/aperl58/lib/IO/Handle.pm line 260.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/aperl58/lib/IO/Handle.pm line
260.
Compilation failed in require at C:/aperl58/lib/IO/Seekable.pm line
101.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/aperl58/lib/IO/Seekable.pm line
101.
Compilation failed in require at C:/aperl58/lib/IO/File.pm line 117.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/aperl58/lib/IO/File.pm line
117.
Compilation failed in require at -e line 305.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 835.
Cannot open popups.exe for reading: No such file or directory at
C:/Perl/site/li
b/Parse/Binary.pm line 611.

I then read the -d switch and it says:

-d, --dependent

Reduce the executable size by not including a copy of perl interpreter.
Executables built this way will need a separate perl5x.dll or
libperl.so to function correctly. This option is only available if perl
is built as a shared library.

The last sentence is what got me. Is the ActiveState distro built as a
shared library? Or is a lean EXE out of my reach because AS was not
built that way?

Robert

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