Dear sisters and brothers in Perl,

I wrote a Perl/Tk application for a Windows OS. When it starts it displays a bitmap file which is located in the same directory as the Perl script is.

Now, I want to make the program available for others, who not necessarily have a Perl installed on their system. Solution obviously is to pack the program into an executable PAR archive with the PAR::Packer "pp" program. The bitmap file is missing then, but it can be packed into the archive with the --addfile option. However, my program won't find the bitmap when started - I assume that it can't because the archive is unpacked in another directory than the executable file is located, but the current path is the one where the executable is placed - which I tested with the cwd command.

I tried to find a solution with Google, but either I asked the wrong keywords, or I simply am too stupid - or both. That's why I would like to ask you for help.

My question is either:
How do I locate the bitmap file which I added to the archive using the --addfile option?
or
Which other possibility do I have to include the bitmap into my program?

Many thanks in advance.

Best greetings and wishes,
Yours

chanklaus

Learning is like swimming against the current - as soon as you stop you'll drift back
(Chinese proverb)

In reply to PAR::Packer: pp with addfile option: where are the files? by chanklaus

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