I just wanted to report a success with PAR 0.959. I'm building my own under CPAN.pm from ActiveState Perl 5.8.8 build 817 with MS Visual Studio 2003. This is my first PAR upgrade on Windows in about two years (since AS build 810 with the Bribes build of PAR 0.85 -- that combination was rock-solid for me). Thanks for the hard work Steffan! The only gotcha I experienced was that I initially launched a plain cmd.exe instead of the shell with the Visual Studio envvars. With the former, I got lots of failures with static libs using the CPAN- downloaded .par, but with the latter everything went very smoothly. Chris -- Chris Dolan, Software Developer, Clotho Advanced Media Inc. 608-294-7900, fax 294-7025, 1435 E Main St, Madison WI 53703 vCard: http://www.chrisdolan.net/ChrisDolan.vcf Clotho Advanced Media, Inc. - Creators of MediaLandscape Software (http://www.media-landscape.com/) and partners in the revolutionary Croquet project (http://www.opencroquet.org/)Thread Next