[Catalyst] Building a PAR file

[Octavian Râşniţă]

From: "Toby Corkindale" <toby.corkindale at strategicdata.com.au>
> Hi Octavian,
> I use PAR to package some apps under Win32, which work fine, so I thought 
> I'd give it a short with Catalyst as I know the PAR system is known-good 
> on that win32 VM.
>
> I used cpanplus to install Catalyst::Devel, then ran 'catalyst MyApp', 
> then added catalyst_par(); to the Makefile, then ran dmake catalyst_par..
>
> I received this error:
> ...
> Writing PAR "myapp.par"
> dmake: Error code 130, while making 'catalyst_par'
>
> Erm. So no, it doesn't seem to work here either.
> Tested on Strawberry Perl 5.10, with current stable releases of PAR, 
> PAR::Packer, Module::ScanDeps, and Catalyst::Devel. (and most of its 
> dependencies, as most were freshly installed, except for dbic)

I can add that I've installed the latest version of PAR from CPAN.
I've also use unxutils, so I have a good tar.exe program that works fine and 
I was able to create a MyApp.tar.gz distribution by just running "nmake 
dist" for that Catalyst app.

Octavian