Hello,

thank you for all your links. They were very interesting. In the meantime I tried cava packager which is also a good packaging tool.

But I like it to solve problems. And I like the one file concept of pp and so I did not give up. And now I have found the complete solution.

  1. pp -p -B -o packed_script.par main_script.pl helper_script.pl

  2. Add the file "main.pl" to "packed_script.par" in the script folder where now also are "main_script.pl" and "helper_script.pl".

    main.pl

    if (defined $ENV{PAR_APP_REUSE}) {
    my $filename = $ENV{PAR_APP_REUSE};
    delete $ENV{PAR_APP_REUSE};
    $ENV{PAR_0} = $filename;

    PAR::_run_external_file($filename, 1);
    exit();
}


my $zip = $PAR::LibCache{$ENV{PAR_PROGNAME}} || Archive::Zip->new(__FI
+LE__);
my $member = eval { $zip->memberNamed('script/main_script.pl') }
        or die qq(main.pl: Can't open perl script "script/main_script.
+pl": No such file or directory ($zip));

PAR::_run_member($member, 1);

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  3. pp -o  packed_script --reusable packed_script.par

Here how to call the external helper script from the main script:

#############################################################
# part in the main_script.pl where the helper script is invoked
#############################################################

my $cmd;
if( defined $ENV{PAR_TEMP} )
{
    $cmd = "$0 --par-options --reuse $ENV{PAR_TEMP}/inc/script/helper_
+script.pl";
}
else
{
    $cmd = "perl helper_script.pl";
}

# invoke cmd

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Now the main script and another external script "helper_script.pl" are packed in one standalone executable. It is running without the need of a perl installation. And all needed modules are packed.

Feedback to this solution is welcome.

Cheers, Dirk

In reply to Solution - pp and multiple perl scripts by Dirk80
in thread pp and multiple perl scripts by Dirk80

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