Tk executable on non-perl machine

wook has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm using PAR to create an executable Tk program that I can hand out to fellow employees. When I run the executable on my machine it works just fine. When I run the file on a computer that doesn't have Perl installed, the GUI comes up but all the text characters are replaced with boxes and the program doesn't run at all - basically I just get a funny looking window. All the computers I'm installing this are windows xp machines.... Here is my par command: pp -o --gui file.exe file.pl What am I doing wrong?

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Re: Tk executable on non-perl machine by marto (Cardinal) on Oct 03, 2005 at 20:13 UTC
Hi, Have you consulted the PAR::Tutorial? It has a section named Packing GUI Applications. It may be of some help. UPDATE: I just had a thought, have you used a font that is not installed on the other machines you are experiencing the problem with? Martin	[reply]
Re^2: Tk executable on non-perl machine by wook (Novice) on Oct 03, 2005 at 20:42 UTC
According to the documentation on CPAN, it says that I need to link a library path to the executable......how do I do this? It doesn't explain how. Also, to the other question, the font is standard - I haven't chnaged anything. Any suggestions?	[reply]
Re^3: Tk executable on non-perl machine by marto (Cardinal) on Oct 03, 2005 at 21:52 UTC
Hi, I cant test this at the moment but try: pp -l TK --gui -0 file.exe file.pl Or pp -M TK --gui -0 file.exe file.pl its getting late and I dont have access to a machine with Perl at the moment. Let me know how you get on with this. Hope this helps. Martin	[reply]
Re: Tk executable on non-perl machine by zentara (Cardinal) on Oct 03, 2005 at 20:12 UTC
I've never used pp on WinXP, but I see a few things which "could" be a factor. First, maybe the --gui option is misplaced in the comman line, try "pp --gui -o file.exe file.pl" Second, try it without the --gui option. I think --gui just calls wperl instead of perl I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]
Re: Tk executable on non-perl machine by Ace128 (Hermit) on Oct 03, 2005 at 23:15 UTC
You can also try to insert more: use pragmas.. Like: `use Tk::Frame; use Tk::Notebook; #And whatever you may be using...` [download] That way its included if missed with par...	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Tk executable on non-perl machine by reneeb (Chaplain) on Oct 04, 2005 at 07:16 UTC
You have to add `use Encode::Unicode` to you script... But add it as the first use-Statement...	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Tk executable on non-perl machine by cognizant (Pilgrim) on Oct 04, 2005 at 09:43 UTC
Use perlapp 6.0 instead `perlapp file.pl --exe file.exe` [download] cheers ---	[reply] [d/l]