Are you using Ubuntu to create the .exe and then trying to run that on Windows? If so, that's your problem right there. Using pp, you can't build an executable one platform (Windows, Linux, Mac, etc.) and get that executable to run on another platform.

To create a Windows executable, you'll need to do this on Windows. Two popular Perl distributions for Windows are ActivePerl from ActiveState and http://strawberryperl.com/. If you're wanting to try Perl on Windows and don't want to install anything, I would recommend checking out portable Strawberry Perl, which does not install anything.

In order to install PAR::Packer (which has the pp utility), you'll definitely need a compiler and a make utility. Strawberry Perl already comes with both ready for use. With ActivePerl, you'll just need to use their PPM utility to install MinGW and dmake.

Of course, if you have Perl installed and have all the needed modules installed too, you might be able to just copy your script to your Windows system and just run it.

In reply to Re^3: pp utility incompatibility issue with windows by dasgar
in thread pp utility incompatibility issue with windows by mailmeakhila

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