The stripped down test below runs file as "perl hello.pl", but fails within a PAR created exe.
Anyone know what to do?
C:\>perl hello.pl
I can see C:\temp\foo.txt
Hello

C:\>pp -o hello.exe hello.pl

C:\>hello
I can see C:\temp\foo.txt
12: Cannot open C:\temp\foo.txt
:No such file or directory:
Hello
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use File::Spec;
use utf8;


my $infile = 
    File::Spec->catfile("C:/temp/",
                        "foo.txt",);

if (-e($infile)) {
    print ("I can see $infile\n");
    # Works fine --> if (!(open my $in_fh, "<$infile")) {
    if (!(open my $in_fh, "<:encoding(utf8)", "$infile")) {
        my $message = __LINE__.": Cannot open $infile\n:$!:\n";
        print ($message);
    }
} else {
    print ("No in file $infile\n");
}
print ("Hello\n");

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