Hi

I use Cygwin for just about anything command line, including perl. However, not all of my co-workers have cygwin (or perl for that matter), so I decided to use PAR::packer to create a standalone executable of my script (see below for dummied down try.pl). So, I ran pp -o try.exe try.pl in my Cygwin environment producing the expected try.exe, which, when run in Cygwin, produces the desired output. However, when I open up a CMD terminal, change directories to where try.exe is located, and run it, I get the following error:

    Usage: try [ -Alib.par ] [ -Idir ] [ -Mmodule ] [ src.par ] [ program.pl ]
    try [ -B|-b ] [-Ooutfile] src.par

Googling for this type of error did not yield very useful results. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

use strict;
use warnings;

print "hello world\n";

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In reply to Use PAR::packer to create EXE from Cygwin for CMD by gri6507

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