I'm running activestate perl 5.8 on windows2000. I installed PAR and Wx via the ppm.bat utility. They both install fine and work fine, I.e. my test Wx script: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Wx;

###########################################################
#
# Define our HelloWorld class that extends Wx::App
#
package HelloWorld;

use base qw(Wx::App);   # Inherit from Wx::App

sub OnInit
# Every application has its own OnInit method that will
# be called when the constructor is called.
{
   my $self = shift;
   my $frame = Wx::Frame->new( undef,         # Parent window
                               -1,            # Window id
                               'Hello World', # Title
                               [1,1],         # position X, Y
                               [200, 150]     # size X, Y
                             );
  $self->SetTopWindow($frame);    # Define the toplevel window
  $frame->Show(1);                # Show the frame
}

###########################################################
#
# The main program
#
package main;

my $wxobj = HelloWorld->new(); # New HelloWorld application
$wxobj->MainLoop;

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works fine when I run it from the command line, "perl wxtest.pl". I get my nice window and stuff. I have another simple test script, test.pl which just contains print "hi". Then I did pp -o test.exe test.pl. The produced test.exe works fine and prints "hi".

However when I run pp wxtest.pl; I get a nice executable named 'a.exe', but when I try to run it from the command line, nothing happens. It just returns instantly. I then switched to the filemanger and tried to run it by double clicking. The first time I double click it, I get a nice wx window and a dos box. I close this, then click on a.exe again. A dos box flashes and goes away instantly. No window. I double click it again, I get the wx window and a dos box. This repeats for as long as I've tried it.

I'm guessing this is some bug with how PAR is extracting the files it contains, but I have no clue what to do about it. Anyone ever heard of anything like this?

In reply to Par, Wx oddities, win2k by BUU

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