Good afternoon.

THE PROBLEM : I'm afraid I'm having a problem with using pp to create a standalone perl executable. It DOES create a file.out, however running this file does NOT run in the same way as If I ran the script itself.

THE REASON: The reason I am trying to create a standalone executable is because the program I have written in perl needs to work in our model office environment at work, which is not connected to a network, and has little or no perl modules outside the core modules, and no way of getting them (to the best of my knowledge that is.)

MY UNDERSTANDING: As far as I am aware, the reason that I need the program to work in an environment where it would not run as a standalone script is a valid reason for making an executable that was self contained with necassary modules -(I had a chat with some very polite monks in the chatterbox).

MY REQUEST: First and formost I'd like to understand why when I run the executable does it not behave/display in the same way as if I just ran the script? What would also be lovely is if someone could shed some general ambient light around the subject itself (common pitfalls/misunderstandings etc.), as after reading suid Perl with App::PAR::Packer (pp) and Convertion Perl Script to Exe with PAR::Packer pp to try and understand exactly what I was doing wrong, I was no better off. I know what you'll ask next what exactly have you tried? - well I simply ran pp -o file.out file.pl which I belive has created my executable which includes the script and necassary modules, and (stupidly) I thought voila! it worked! - how wrong I was. I run the executable now, and it runs funny , giving me this( : is not an identifier) in the window and the formatting all skewed...?

As always, my deepest thanks to those who lend an ear, and apologies in advance if I have ommitted any necessities or have made myself unclear, me and the old How do I post a question effectively? don't always get along ;)

In reply to Help with pp - Perl Packer by perloHolic()

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