I have a GUI based application written by me in Perl, using Perl-Tk for the GUI. This application runs well on Linux, Windows and macOS (on macOS it requires an installed X11 server for the GUI).

In order to distribute this application to Windows users I packaged it up into an exe file using ParPacker and this works really well, no complaints from the users.

I tried using ParPacker on macOS but ran into problems with X11 and other libraries not being found as their location varies depending on the X11 server installed and depending on which packaging system is being used, there is XQuartz and there are X11 servers in Homebrew and Macports and there are even various distributions of Perl and related modules (the limited Perl included in macOS and the Perl packages from Homebrew and Macports), each using different paths and apparently also different library versions.
It seemed very much a mess to me and even after days of trying I wasn't able to find a satisfactory solution.

So has anybody successfully packaged up a Perl-Tk application for macOS and if yes how exactly did you do it, using ParPacker or some other method?
Any hints would be very helpful. TIA.

In reply to How do I package up a Perl-TK app for macOS? by perltux

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