I have no time to reproduce it atm, but if I recall it correctly included content is flattened into / so no /script folder will be accessible.

From the docs

> By default, files are placed under / inside the package with their original names.

After this I remember there are other methods to access included files, even if I never included a perl script. Why you dont wrap your code inside a small madule including it in a simpler way and then adding the use of this module inside your main script?

Again from the docs

# To get the host archive from a packed program:

my $zip = PAR::par_handle($0); # an Archive::Zip object
my $content = $zip->contents('MANIFEST');

# Same thing, but with read_file():

my $content = PAR::read_file('MANIFEST');
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