Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

How can I override at run time the directory where Mojo searches for the file "html_entities.txt"? The reason is that I am trying to use PAR pp to create an executable of an application using Mojo on Windows 10, but the exe fails with the following error:

Unable to open html entities file (C:\Users\de\AppData\Local\Temp\par-
+6663\cache-9973dd41d00e8bee27c9630746780ae38da71709\inc\lib\Mojo\reso
+urces\html_entities.txt): No such file or directory at C:\Users\de\Ap
+pData\Local\Temp\par-6663\cache-9973dd41d00e8bee27c9630746780ae38da71
+709\inc\lib/Mojo/Base.pm line 14.

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I already tried to add to the file explicitly:

-a "C:\Strawberry\perl\vendor\lib\Mojo\resources;Mojo/resources"

with no effect. So probably copying and pasting the file into my data structure and instruct Mojo to search there could be a fix. Any suggestion?

2021-07-09 Athanasius fixed over-long code block.

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Re: Mojo pp html_entities.txt
by Fletch (Bishop) on Jun 17, 2021 at 17:59 UTC

    Not exactly a solution but:

    If you look at the code (with something like less $( perldoc -l Mojo::Util )) it's explicitly using the path to Mojo/Util.pm and forming the path to that text using the directory that perl source resides in. If you can get PAR to add the resources dir in the packaged lib/Mojo directory it looks like it should find it so I think you're on the right track. 

      ## From Mojo/Util.pm
  my $path = File::Spec->catfile(dirname(__FILE__), 'resources', 'html
+_entities.txt');

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Re: Mojo pp html_entities.txt
by swl (Prior) on Jul 10, 2021 at 00:48 UTC
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Re: Mojo pp html_entities.txt
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 09, 2021 at 03:51 UTC
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