Why behaviour changes after converting to exe

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

Hi Monks,

Nice day!!I am running this code in Activeperl 5.8,I have the following piece of code,

#!/bin/perl-w 
use DateTime;
print"Hello world\n";
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When i run the above code in .pl file,it is working fine.But when i converted it to exe file by using par module and running the exe file,it is showing the message that en_US.pm moudle not found as shown below,

C:\Perl\bin>perdate.exe
Can't locate DateTime/Locale/en_US.pm in @INC (@INC contains: CODE(0xd
+facec) C:\
DOCUME~1\regan\LOCALS~1\Temp\par-regan\cache-1154325548/inc/lib C:\DOC
+UME~1\rega
n\LOCALS~1\Temp\par-regan\cache-1154325548/inc CODE(0xceaa3c) .) at (e
+val 14) li
ne 3.
Compilation failed in require at script/perdate.pl line 2.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at script/perdate.pl line 2.
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Could anyone explain me why its behaviour changes when converted to exe file.Also when i tried to install the en_US module by using ppm,i found the following error

C:\Perl\bin>ppm install en_US
Error: Failed to download URL http://www.soulcage.net/ppds.58/en_US.pp
+d: 404 No
 Found
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I googled it to found in other site,Quite not found anywhere.Pls help me to solve this issue??

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Re: Why behaviour changes after converting to exe by reneeb (Chaplain) on Jul 31, 2006 at 07:28 UTC
the en_US.pm file is part of the DateTime::Locale distribution. Try to add the module to the PAR archive manually: `pp -M DateTime::Locale -o script.exe script.pl`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Why behaviour changes after converting to exe by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jul 31, 2006 at 07:35 UTC
pp -M DateTime::Locale -o script.exe script.pl That doesn't work for me ... close, but not quite. I found I had to specifically load DateTime::Locale::en_US: `pp -M DateTime::Locale::en_US -o script.exe script.pl` [download] Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]
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Re: Why behaviour changes after converting to exe by dirving (Friar) on Jul 31, 2006 at 18:08 UTC
You may be able to use the -x switch of pp to have it catch these dependencies. Be careful though: because this switch actually runs the program, if the program never terminates or does some destructive operation this might have undesired effects.	[reply]