I've started playing around with PAR, and I've hit a snag when it comes to building and executing standalones on Win32. Specifically - if I've used any non-core modules in the code. I've reduced this to the simplest possible case in order to demonstrate my problem. Please consider the following: 
K:\Perl\temp>type bar.pl
use Cwd;
print "Hello World\n";

K:\Perl\temp>pp -o bar.exe bar.pl

K:\Perl\temp>bar.exe
Hello World

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So far, so good. However.... 
K:\Perl\temp>type foo.pl
use Data::Dumper::Simple;
print "Hello World\n";

K:\Perl\temp>foo.pl
Hello World

K:\Perl\temp>pp -o foo.exe foo.pl

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If I then try to run foo.exe, I first get a dialog box with this: 
"The procedure entry point PL_memory_wrap could not be located in the 
+dynamic link library perl58.dll"

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and then the following error: 
K:\Perl\temp>foo.exe
Can't load 'K:\DOCUME~1\Darren\LOCALS~1\Temp\par-Darren\cache-11429565
+20\b007796
b.dll' for module Data::Dumper: load_file:The specified procedure coul
+d not be f
ound at D:/cpanrun/build/5-8-0/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 229.
 at ../blib/lib/PAR/Heavy.pm line 107
Compilation failed in require at Data/Dumper/Simple.pm line 6.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Data/Dumper/Simple.pm line 6.
Compilation failed in require at script/foo.pl line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at script/foo.pl line 1.

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So basically, if I include any non-core modules - it borks. I've tried it with various modules, all with the same result. I'm guessing that perhaps something is screwed wth my libraries or path - but I'm not sure where to start looking.

Can somebody please point me in the right direction?

Update: - removed external (image) link as suggested by davidrw.

Update 2: - problem solved. Many thanks to pboin for the pointer :)

Thanks,
Darren :)

In reply to Problem including non-core modules in a PAR executable (Win32) by McDarren

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