Re: get "format error: bad signature" when using an .exe created by a "pp"

Following up on the suggestion by LanX in 11129674 to search for the error, this old bug report comes up as looking relevant: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=4633.

What versions of PAR::Packer and Archive::Zip are you using?

Also, are you able to provide code to replicate the issue? For example: What code are you packing? What is the pp command you are running? Are you packing files with special characters in the name?

And can you open the zip file using some other utility such as 7zip?

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Re^2: get "format error: bad signature" when using an .exe created by a "pp" by levW (Beadle) on Mar 16, 2021 at 06:50 UTC
Thanks for the idea...resolved by force installing the latest Archive::Zip !	[reply]
Re^3: get "format error: bad signature" when using an .exe created by a "pp" by swl (Prior) on Mar 16, 2021 at 11:14 UTC
Good to hear it works. Not sure why you had to force install Archive::Zip, though. I just installed version 1.68 without issue on Strawberry Perl 5.30. That said, there are fails for Windows on CPAN Testers: http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Archive-Zip%201.68;os=mswin32;perl=5.30.1;reports=1	[reply]