Greetings Perl Monks,

I am using ActivePerl on Windows 7. I installed PAR and attempted to convert a simple Perl script to a .exe using pp.
I received the following error.

pp test.pl -o test.exe
No Perl script found in input

I confirmed that test.pl does exist in this directory and runs just fine using straight perl.
I moved the perl script to where pp.bat is located C:\Perl\site\bin.
This time it worked perfectly and created a test.exe file which runs as expected.

C:\Perl\site\bin>pp test.pl -o test.exe

Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
...

C:\Perl\site\bin>dir test.exe
Directory of C:\Perl\site\bin
02/26/2013 07:19 PM 2,556,852 test.exe

I tried adding the directory my Perl scripts are located in to my PATH variable but still can not create a .exe unless I am in C:\Perl\site\bin. Is there something else I need to set?

In reply to PAR: pp No Perl script found in input by mkmal

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