Hello wise monks,

I created some par packed executables with the command line tool "pp" as follows in a MSWin32 environment:

pp -a "additional_stuff" -o hello_world.exe hello_world.pl

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Now I noticed that inside the "hello_world.exe" there are a lot of files which I want to get rid of.

That's why I wrote the following script:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Archive::Zip qw( :ERROR_CODES );

my $zip_name = 'hello_world.exe';
my $zip = Archive::Zip->new( $zip_name );
die "ERROR: Could not open \"$zip_name\"!!!" unless defined $zip;

my @metadata_file_members = $zip->membersMatching( '\.metadata' );
$zip->removeMember($_) for ( @metadata_file_members );
$zip->overwrite();

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The updated "hello_world.exe" now does NOT contain the .metadata files I wanted to get rid of. So this works fine. But now I have the problem that I have a normal zip file and not a self extracting file as before.

I looked into the examples of Archive::Zip and found "selfex.pl". Here I got the idea of how it could be done. But to be honest I have no plan how to create the par packed executable as it was before.

I've seen in the "script/main.pl" file within the par packed executable that this code could be the right place to look. But as said before I don't know how to create exactly such a self extracting executable as it was before.

Main question: How can I remove some files from a par packed executable?

Thank you a lot for you help.

Greetings,

Dirk

In reply to Update par packer executable by Dirk80

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