UPDATE: Thanks for all your helpful suggestions! Specifically including the module it was looking for (DateTime::Locale::en_US) worked perfectly...

Benevolent monks,

I use Active State's PerlApp program to create Windows executable GUI programs, with excellent results. Until now, that is.

I just added DateTime::Format::Excel to my GUI in order to parse an Excel date-formatted field (since Excel has the annoying behavior of storing dates as decimal numbers).

When I "compiled" my program in PerlApp, it created an executable successfully, but when I run it, it can't find one of the modules required by DateTime::Format::Excel (Can't locate DateTime/Locale/en_US.pm in @INC).

I see DateTime::Format::Excel listed in the Files tab of the PerlApp project, so my Module Search paths appear correct. Also, I can easily find this module in my C:\Perl\site\lib\DateTime\Locale folder, so I even tried manually binding it, to no avail.

I seek enlightenment in one of the following solutions -
1. Has someone encountered a similar issue with PerlApp and can provide a method to force it to find the obscure module?
2. Is there another somewhat simplistic method to convert Excel datetime numbers into actual dates, other than using the DateTime::Format::Excel->parse_datetime method?

Piously yours,
Sexton Pete

In reply to PerlApp can't find bound module by petecm99

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