Hi monks

time again to ask for your knowledge. I am encountering the following problem with an executable created with pp on macOS. The executable needs to read files (for example parameters files) which are in the same directory of the executable. If I run the script from the command line, the files are read without problems. If I run the executable, the files cannot be read. So there must be some problem with my paths. To explain this, a simple Tk example with a button and an icon:

    use strict;
    use warnings;
    use Tk;
    use Tk::PNG;
    my $png = 'myicon.png';
    my $mw = Tk::MainWindow->new();
    my $icon = $mw->Photo(-file => $png);
    my $btn = $mw->Button(
        -image => $icon,
    );
    $btn->pack();
    $mw->MainLoop();

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I create my executable simply with the command:

pp -o TEST myscript.pl

When I run the executable I get the following error:

couldn't open "myicon.png": no such file or directory

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This of course signals that it can not find the file. From the command line however it works.

What should I consider to solve this?

In reply to pp macOS external file by IB2017

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