[Changes for 0.89 - June 10, 2005] * Bug Fixes - Stop static.c from pulling in Perl header files, otherwise parl.exe ends up depending on the Perl DLL on Win32 when Perl is built without PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS. - With *nix and File::Path 1.06, par.pl's avoidance of loading Cwd.pm caused syntax errors. [Changes for 0.88 - June 7, 2005] * Bug Fixes - Extracted .pl files should be loadable via the coderef-in-@INC too, just like .pm files and autosplit files. This makes PAR work with Perl 5.8.7 on Win32. - Fix the build with GCC 4.0. - If $ENV{PWD} is not defined, fallback to use `pwd` to obtain the working directory for invoking. [Changes for 0.87 - January 31, 2005] * Bug Fixes - On Win32, some versions of File::Spec::Win32 contains explicit "use Cwd;" lines, which renders parl.exe unusable. - Executable made by "pp" may fail when invoked as "./a.out" or "../a.out", due to incorrect PWD handling logic. [Changes for 0.86 - December 11, 2004] * New Features - New "pp -z" (--compress) option to set compression level (0-9). - New "pp -T" (--tempcache) option to override the per-executable directory name; it defaults to a hash of the executable, computed at compile time. This makes startup much faster for large executables. - The hash algorithm described above now prefers Digest::SHA if installed, otherwise Digest::SHA1, then fallbacks to Digest::MD5. - Functionality of "pp -X" is now extended: if the argument after -X is a zip or par file, files in it are excluded from the produced executable, and the executable will "use" the zip/par instead. For multiple -X args, successive args are only "use"d if they contain additional unique files. - "pp -l" now searches for libraries in "." and PATH in Win32. - "pp -l" shared libraries are now added to %skip, so it will not be included in both shlib/ and lib/. - "pp -l" now chases symbolic links. For example, if "libsomelib.so" is a symlink to "libsomelib.so.1", which is another symlink to "libsomelib.so.1.2", pp now follows these symlinks and add the real file the par, rather than "libsomelib.so". - New contributed code in "contrib/stdio/": Useful Tk console for "pp -g" users. - New contributed tutorial documents, currently in "contrib/docs/", which will eventually be turned into POD documents. - Running "perl Makefile.PL" with $ENV{DEBUG} set to true now produces "parl" with debug symbols. - Remove Cwd.pm (and Cwd.so) from the bundled dependencies. * Bug Fixes - More robust probing for case-insensitive file systems. - PodStrip now attempts to match "standard" pod start before =cut, otherwise =cut gets removed by itself. - Win32 slashes are now normalized in privlib and archlib directories. - Don't extract shared libraries to inc/, since they were extracted in $PAR_TEMP already. - Don't re-extract shared libraries in subdirectories, since they are picked up by corresponding "use". - Tk now exits properly with a non-zero exit() value. - Fix libperl probing problem on Debian and Gentoo that manifests as a "libperl5.8.so not found" error during runtime. - gpp: Fixed typo in options with multiple filenames; cleaned up pp parameters. - When PAR_TEMP is set, shlib/ was not correctly added to the dynamic load path environment variables. - PAR now builds with Win32 VC++ without CVTRES.EXE available. - Detection of cl.exe, gcc.exe and cc.exe is now case-insensitive. [Changes for 0.85 - July 2, 2004] * New Features - New version of "gpp"; see contrib/gui_pp/gpp_readme.txt for details. * Bug Fixes - MANIFEST and META.yml were not properly updated by PAR::Packer. - Setting directory aliases with "pp -a"/"pp -A" was broken. Fixed, and tests were added for it. - Statically-built executables was needlessly extracting libperl each time it runs; now it is eliminated and hence much faster. [Changes for 0.83 - May 29, 2004] * New Features - Revamped PAR::FAQ and sychronized with par.perl.org. - In pp-generated programs, $0 is now set to the pathname leading to the invoked executable. Use $ENV{PAR_0} instead to get the filename that contains the main perl program. - Updated "contrib/gui_pp/gpp" to support PAR::Packer options. * Bug Fixes - Core XS modules, such as Data::Dumper, were skipped by "pp". - Fix t/2-pp.t for Cygwin by probing $Config{_exe} rather than uname(). - Scripts made by "pp -P", when invoked as "perl scriptname", should not search for the same-named programs in PATH. - Correctly remove leading slash and drive letters from absolute filenames passed to "pp -a". Also normalized blackslahes to slashes. - The PP_OPTS environment variable was not recognized. - "pp -a dirname;diralias" was broken. - "pp -f" and "pp -F" were broken. [Changes for 0.82 - May 24, 2004] * New Features - New module PAR::Packer provides an OO interface to "pp"'s functionality; "pp" is now merely a thin wrapper for it. - New module App::Packer::PAR is a modified version of App::Packer, designed to work with PAR::Packer, and will hopefully be merged back to App::Packer. - The old, procedural "pp" is moved to contrib/; end-users should notice no changes in "pp"'s behaviour. - New options "pp -a" and "pp -A" (--addfile/--addlist) provides ways to include extra files and directories in the package. - The long option name for "pp -M" is changed from --add to --module. The old name is still recognized but no longer documented. Using "pp -M" to include non-library files is now deprecated; use "pp -a" instead. - par.pl and parl now writes messages to STDOUT, instead of STDERR. As a consequence, t/2-pp.t no longer prints extra warnings during "make test". * Bug Fixes - On Non-Win32 platforms, perl 5.8.0 and earlier versions produced pp-generated executables that immediately segfaults. - Running pp-generated executables with absolute pathname failed on statically-built perls. - Tests were failing due to a missing pipe_a_command.pm in MANIFEST. - Add the missing myldr/win32.coff for building on Cygwin/MinGW. - If the "perl" in path is different from the perl interpreter used for "make test", t/2-pp.t is known to fail and is now skipped. - Cygwin failed t/2-pp.t because "parl" is spelled as "parl.exe" there. [Changes for 0.81 - May 23, 2004] * New Features - Regained support for Win9x, Cygwin and MinGW. - PAR now supports 64-bit platforms, such as Tru64 and AIX. - Cygwin and MinGW can now build EXEs with icons, too; MinGW can update the icons, but Cygwin cannot. - Newly supported modules: Pod::Usage, DBIx::SearchBuilder, DBIx::ReportBuilder, SVK::Command, SVN::Core, and the ':encoding()' IO discipline. * Bug Fixes - On non-Win32 systems, invoking pp-generated executable from PATH did not work. - Standalone executables were clobbered by existing perl environments with an identical "auto/IO" libpath as the author's environment. - Standalone executables did not work on systems with an unset dynamic load path environment variable (eg. LD_LIBRARY_PATH). - "pp -p -o multi.par 1.pl 2.pl; parl multi.par 1.pl" now works. - $ENV{PATH} and $ENV{TEMP} were truncated at first path delimiter. - "pp -f Bleach" did not work for ActivePerl on Win32. - Windows 9x systems were generating invalid cache directory names. - $ENV{path} is also recognized as $ENV{PATH} for Win32. [Changes for 0.80 - March 17, 2004] * New Features - A comprehensive test suite for pp in contrib/automated_pp_test/. It is run as part of the "make test" process from t/2-pp.t. - Much better support for "pp -i" and "pp -N" (--icon/--info) using the Win32::Exe module. You may now use EXE and DLL as icon files. - If PAR_GLOBAL_CLEAN (-C, --clean) is not set, we now preemptively extracts files under the cache directory. That made POSIX.pm and other modules that depends on %INC pointing to real files work correctly. - Now uses SHA-1 to create temporary directories and files, instead of mtime. - Verbosity level is now 1..3, not 0..5; "pp -v" now takes an optional integer, so "pp -v input.pl" is no longer an error. - New flags "-vv" and "-vvv", as shorthands for "-v 2" and "-v 3". - The user-settable PAR_CLEAN and PAR_TEMP environment variables has been renamed to PAR_GLOBAL_CLEAN and PAR_GLOBAL_TEMP; the original variables are still accessible within the program. This is so that a pp-generated program can exec() or system() another one without crippling its environment variables. - File lookups are now case-insensitive on case-insensitive filesystems. - Another Tk-based GUI in contrib/gui_pp/; not installed by default. - OOified "pp" in contrib/object_oriented_pp/; not installed by default. * Bug Fixes - "pp -d" (--dependent) prevented "pp -C" (--clean) from working. - The "pp -m" (--multiarch) option was implemented incorrectly and thus broken. - Many documentation tweaks. - Previously, "pp -M" (--module) did not add the module itself, only its dependencies. - Suppress a bogus warning when $ENV{$Config{ldlibpthname}} is empty. - "parl -v" without Module::Signature installed could delete all files within the current directory. Oops. - On *nix systems, pp-generated executables erroneously linked to libperl even if "pp -d" (--dependent) is not set. - Spurious =cut directives in source files is now handled gracefully by PAR::Filter::PodStrip. - "pp -L" (--log) now logs all output messages to the log file, not just the ones printed by "pp" itself. [Changes for 0.79 - January 8, 2004] * Bug Fixes - Setting PAR_CLEAN had the reversed effect. Oops. - Dynamic libraries in cached directories was not detected properly, resulting in "permission denied" errors during certain race conditions. [Changes for 0.78 - January 7, 2004] * New Features - By default, executables generated by "pp" will now store extracted files in cache directories. You may override this by setting the PAR_CLEAN environment variable to "1", or generate executables using "pp -C". - New "pp -C" (--clean) option to make the generated executable clean up temporary directories after each run. - PAR_CLEARTEMP is renamed to PAR_CLEAN. * Bug Fixes - On Win32, temporary directories containing shared libraries was not being properly cleaned up. - If no suitable temporary directories are found, use the current directory (".") instead of the root directory ("/"). [Changes for 0.77 - January 1, 2004] * New Features - New "pp -c" and "pp -x" (--compile/--execute) options run the script with "perl -c" to check for dependencies. - Also, the new "pp -n" (--noscan) command skips the default static scanning altogether. - Added support for "pp -c/-x/-n" to tkpp. - For dynamically-built perls, pp-generated .exe files will now appear in the process table with the same name as it was launched, instead of "par.exe". - New filter "Obfuscate", which uses B::Deobfuscate to strip away PODs and comments, as well as mangling variable names. - Merged tkpp 1.1 from Doug Gruber. - OS/2 is now supported. - External Zlib is no longer required to run pp-generated binaries. * Bug Fixes - Makefile.PL was failing if $Config{cc} contains spaces. - No longer needs setting "Windows 95 compatible mode" to run on WinXP. - On Win9x with Perl 5.6.1, "nmake" was failing due to extra "@[...]" symbols in Makefile. It should be fixed now. - The "bad signature" problem with newer Archive::Zip versions is fixed. - App::Packer::Backend::PAR was misplaced into App/Packer/PAR. - Signature tests were failing under new ExtUtils::MakeMaker versions. - ActiveState's PPM building machine was having problem with PAR; a ".pdb" entry in MANIFEST.SKIP is added to fix that. - Some self-built PAR instances on Windows were failing due to mismatching short and long pathnames. [Changes for 0.76 - October 28, 2003] * New Features - Input filters. "pp --filter Bleach" now obfuscates the incoming script with PAR::Filter::Bleach; "pp --modfilter Bleach" applies Bleach to all packed modules. - Two previously built-in filters, PodStrip and PatchContent, are refactored out as PAR::Filter subclasses. - Two new filters, Bleach and Bytecode, are added for source-hiding purporses. - New utility, "tkpp", provides a GUI frontend to "pp". - New option, "pp --perlscript", to generate stand-alone scripts. - The old "PAR::Intro" documentation has been replaced by two new ones: "PAR::Tutorial" and "PAR::FAQ". - Tk pixmap (.xpm) files can now be packed with "pp --add". * Bug Fixes - Perl 5.8.1 has an off-by-one bug that prevents "parl" to function properly. We have now provided a workaround; this bug should also be fixed in Perl 5.8.2. - Fixed https support for LWP via the new Module::ScapDeps. [Changes for 0.75 - September 21, 2003] * New Features - "pp -o file.exe file.par" now packs file.par into file.exe; this means you can hand-tweak PAR files generated by "pp -p" before packing it into an executable. * Bug Fixes - Packing multiple programs by "pp script1.pl script2.pl" was producing syntax errors; fixed. - "pp -M datafile" now works. - Exit code from pp-packed executables now properly propagates out. - Fixed "use base" detection, Math::BigInt support and spurious signature warnings, by updated versions of Module::ScapDeps and Module::Signature. - On Win32, the PE info headers no longer show PAR_XXXXXXXXXXX. [Changes for 0.74 - August 20, 2003] * New Features - pp now has a set of "PatchContent" rules, dealing with non-PAR-compatible modules: Tk, Tk::Widget, Win32::API::Type, Win32::SystemInfo, SQL::Parser, diagnostics. These rules may get refactored back to PAR.pm in the future. - New function, PAR::reload_libs(), to reload currently used libraries inside PAR files. - PAR.pm itself is now never packed into pp-generated files, to perserve interface compatibility and reduce bloat. - PAR.pm now handles "use PAR 'othercode.par'" called from program or modules inside PAR files, even recursively. - A new icon for Win32 that is hopefully prettier. * Bug Fixes - All data after __DATA__ are preserved for included libraries. This helps self-reading modules like Net::LDAP::Constants. - PAR::read_file() was broken. It now works. - "use PAR" inside pp-generated executables was failing with 'file too short' errors due the mishandling of seek/tell. - Occasional crashes on Win32 due to rmdir() called too early with DLLs still open is fixed; however, "pp -d" executables may still exhibit this problem. - "pp -X" used to only take full pathnames as arguments. It now also takes "Module::Name" and "Module/Name.pm". - Dynamically built Perl under Cygwin failed to build, because libperl.dll.a was not found. - Eliminated "callback called on exit" warnings, and the related "access violation" error on Win32. [Changes for 0.73 - August 6, 2003] * New Features - The PAR Homepage is now online at http://par.perl.org/. Documentations have been changed to link to it. * Bug Fixes - Tk applications can now properly access xpm/xbm files with Tk->findINC. - On Win32, pp-generated executables could not start from Explorer, if its path contains space characters. Fixed. - On Win32, pp-generated executables used to leave around an empty directory in $ENV{TEMP}. It is now properly rmdir'ed. - Some systems (notably OpenBSD and Debian) does not put their libperl.so in the default location, which breaks the build process; now searches inside $ENV{$Config{ldlibpthname}} and $Config{libpth} to find it. [Changes for 0.72 - August 2, 2003] * New Features - CHECK and INIT blocks in programs inside PAR are now supported. * Bug Fixes - Two debug statements were mistakenly left in the source, resulting in "trying to get rid of /tmp/par_priv.xxxx.tmp" messages. - Building on Linux with GCC 3.2.2 was failing due to massive heap required for my_perl.c. Fixed by splitting it into 3k chunks. - Depends on Module::ScanDeps 0.21; it supports utf8 on Perl 5.6.1 and can significantly reduce executable file size by eliminating unneccessary shared libraries. [Changes for 0.71 - July 30, 2003] * Bug Fixes - A nasty data-loss bug has been uncovered immediately after the previous release; it only affects Windows platforms, and may cause all files to be erased under the current root (\) directory. - Building on Red Hat linux was failing, with error message that says "my_perl not declared". This has since been fixed. [Changes for 0.70 - July 29, 2003] * New Features - On machines with shared libperl, "pp" now makes truly stand-alone executables; the old behaviour is available with "pp --dependent". - Under Windows NT/2000/XP, "pp --icon=name.ico" now changes the icon for the generated executable; otherwise, a default "white camel" icon is used. - "use PAR 'http://example.com/foo.par'" now works, as does "perl -MPAR -Ihttp://example.com/foo.par". - PAR::Dist is now a mandatory prerequisite, which provides functions to turn any CPAN distribution into a PAR distribution, as well as to install, uninstall, sign and verify such files. - Integrated PAR::Dist into "par.pl" and "parl". For example, "parl -i Foo-0.01-i386-freebsd-5.8.0.par" installs a PAR distribution; "parl -v out.exe" verifies a digitally signed executable generated by "pp --sign". - A new option, "pp --multiarch", lets you generate PAR files that can work on several architectures. - "pp --sign" now adds digital signatures to generated executables and PAR files. - PAR files may now (recursively) contain other PAR files inside their par/ directories. - shlib/ and par/ directories inside PAR files can now contain architecture- and perl-version-specific subdirectories. - The "Cross-Platform Packaging and Deployment with PAR" tutorial is now online as http://www.autrijus.org/par-tutorial/. * Bug Fixes - MANIFEST.SKIP was broken on Win32. - C compilers that doesn't handle long line well can now compile PAR. - DLL files inside the same auto/ library as XS modules was not properly extracted and loaded. This specifically affects Win32. - Because parl's @INC is '.', pp-generated executables may miss IO.dll and other shared libraries since they couldn't be correctly found in @INC. [Changes for 0.69 - May 31, 2003] * New Features - Under Perl 5.8, "pp -p" now works with Apache::PAR. See http://aut.dyndns.org/par-tutorial/slide018.html for a simple example. - "pp -M filename" now adds "filename" to /, not /lib/, unless filename ends in (pm|ix|al). This makes it possible to bundle "web.conf" needed by Apache::PAR. - "pp -l" now searchs in system library paths, and appends "lib" / prepends ".$dl_ext" where necessary. * Bug Fixes - PAR segfaults on some Unix platforms due to a NULL pointer used in mktmpdir.c. Fixed. - "pp -o out.par -p -e '...'" now honors -o; previously it used "a.out.par" anyway. - Inhibited spurious uninitialized warnings under -w in the POD-stripping code. - Win32 did not properly cleans up PAR_TEMP directory, resulting in failure for executables that reused the same PID. Fixed. [Changes for 0.68 - May 26, 2003] * New Features - New 'pp -l' option to pack additional shared libraries (DLLs). - POD-stripped libraries inside PAR files now have #line directives inserted, so they report the original line numbers on failure. - PAR files generated by 'pp' now has a MANIFEST file that can be viewed by Gecko-based browsers with Javascript turned on, e.g.: jar:http://aut.dyndns.org/par/test.par!/MANIFEST * Bug Fixes - Each pp-executable instance now creates its own PAR_TEMP directory; this avoids permission errors when multiple users run the same binary. As a consequence, PAR_CLEARTEMP is now set to "1" by default. - Newer versions of shared Zlib library no longer causes "pp" to generate broken executables. - Fixed dynamic loading on Cygwin was failing due to missing +x mode. - Like "use lib", "use PAR 'name.par'" now unshift()s instead of push()es into @INC. Same applies for "par.pl -A" and "parl -A". - Fixed building on ActivePerl 626 and below due to a missing $Config{ld}. [Changes for 0.67 - April 1, 2003] * New Features - PAR now works on Cygwin and MinGW/MSYS. - Globbing support in PAR::import(): use PAR "/path/*.pm"; - New license clarification messages added to POD and 'pp -V'. - All 'pp' options now has a short form (-o) and a long form (--output). - Revamped documentation for 'pp'. - New -g (--gui) flag for 'pp' to build console-less Win32 executables. * Bug Fixes - Building on Darwin Perl 5.6.0 was broken with 'cc -s'. - Building on 5.6.0 was broken due to bad 'base.pm'. - Win32 Tk::Widget autoloading was broken due to a binmode() bug. - IPC::Run was pod-stripped incorrectly. Fixed. - Depends on Module::ScanDeps 0.19, which supports utf8 and .ph files. - Better AutoInstall support, which uses 'sudo' where necessary. [Changes for 0.66 - March 20, 2003] * New Features - Adds PAR::Intro, a PODified version of the online presentation. - Adds App::Packer::Backend::PAR, a bridge between PAR and App::Packer. - Scripts and modules are now searched in "/" last, instead of first. - Experimental patch for packing shared libraries via "pp -l". - HTTP fetching of precompiled packages in addition to FTP. * Bug Fixes - Makefile.PL now downloads precompiled packages only if needed. - AutoInstall has been made to work for an easier installation. - The redundant "parl.exe.bat" is no longer created on Win32. - Pre-0.63 PARs used to leave broken .dll in TEMP; now they're cleaned. - "pp c:\something.pl" no longer treats c: as a relative path. - "pp -I dir" now searches 'dir' first, instead of last. - "pp" was broken on Perl 5.6.0 due to => stringification bugs. - Support for Tk::Widget autoloading has been added. - "parl" was not stripped if "gcc" was invoked as "cc"; fixed. - On a machine with multiple "parl"s, "pp" now uses the correct one. - File::Temp was missing as a dependency. * Known Issues - Cygwin support is still broken. - PAR does not include utf8_heavy.pl nor unicore/* for scripts that has "use utf8;". This has since been fixed by Module::ScanDeps 0.18. [Changes for 0.65 - March 9, 2003] This release comes with several significant improvements: * Automatic binary installation Previously, users without a C compiler cannot build the 'parl' executable, and is therefore unable to create self-contained binaries using 'pp'. Now, if there is a binary package available for that architecture under my CPAN directory, the Makefile.PL script will automatically fetch it, unpack into blib/, and the installation will continue as normal, resulting in a fully-functional 'pp'. This feature is part of the soon-to-be-released Module::Install framework; it will greatly benefit all CPAN authors with non-pure-perl distributions. * POD stripping Packages generated with 'pp' will now strip POD sections from all packed dependencies (your own scripts is unaffected); all binary executables will save at least 276732 bytes, with additional ~20% saving in additional packed dependencies. You can turn off this feature with the PAR_VERBATIM environment variable. * XS Incompatibility solved Because 'pp'-generated executables includes some fixed version of shared libraries (IO, Zlib, etc), they used to break when the target system has different version of shared libraries. Now PAR::Heavy intercepts DynaLoader::dl_expandspec to always prefer the library inside the PAR file, so this issue is resolved. * 5.6.1 Reclaimed Thanks to Sisyphus and various others, building on Perl 5.6.1 (with its old ExtUtils::MakeMaker and lack of PTHREAD_ATFORK) now works again. [Changes for 0.64 - March 2, 2003] * New Features - The t/0-signature.t test is re-enabled for people using my Module::Signature to verify the module's OpenPGP signature. - This release is the first distribution on CPAN to use the Module::Install framework, which is a stand-alone, extensible drop-in replacement for ExtUtils::MakeMaker that needs no extra action/prerequisites for end users. * Bug Fixes - Dynamic loading on Win32 was broken, due to a binmode() bug reported by Bill Atkins, D. Menzel and others. - Building on Win32 in directory names that contain spaces did not work. [Changes for 0.63 - February 6, 2003] * Bug Fixes - The 'parl' binary (which replaces the old 'par' or 'par.exe') didn't work properly when bundling perl modules for self- contained executables, rendering 'pp' useless on machines without core perl.