Perl to exe problem using PDK

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

Hi Monks,

My script has Archive::Extract module. When I try to convert the script to exe using PDK 8, getting error as

Can't locate ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm in @INC (@INC contains:) at (eval 64) line 3.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at validate_v1.pl line 6.

please advice.

thanks

siva

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Re: Perl to exe problem using PDK by rovf (Priest) on Jun 19, 2009 at 07:46 UTC
Your @INC path is empty. You need to set it (either using `PERL5LIB` or `use lib` or the `-I` switch), so that Perl can find the module. -- Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Perl to exe problem using PDK by Anonymous Monk on Jun 19, 2009 at 08:10 UTC
That module is CORE, it should already be in @INC	[reply]
Re^3: Perl to exe problem using PDK by rovf (Priest) on Jun 19, 2009 at 08:25 UTC
Good point. But this means that either @INC was explicitly changed in some BEGIN section, or the Perl installation itself was broken, because even without setting any PERL5LIB variable, @INC should at least contain the path to the core libraries. To check the installation, one could do a `perl -lwe "print @INC"` [download] on the Windows command line. On my system, this yields `c:/perl/site/libc:/perl/lib.` [download] (and, no, I have no idea where the dot after `lib` comes from, but on Windows, LIB and LIB. are presumably the same anyway). If @INC is empty here too, the installation is broken (but then Perl should find no Core modules at all). So, more likely, there must be some BEGIN section which resets @INC.... -- Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Perl to exe problem using PDK by Anonymous Monk on Jun 19, 2009 at 07:06 UTC
When I try to convert the script to exe using PDK 8, How are you trying to do that (what commands)? Maybe you should `require ExtUtils::MM_Win32;`?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Perl to exe problem using PDK by rovf (Priest) on Jun 19, 2009 at 07:43 UTC
Maybe you should require ExtUtils::MM_Win32; The OP must have done something like this (or more likely, the Archive module he used did a `use` of that), otherwise he wouldn't have got this error message... -- Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Perl to exe problem using PDK by rovf (Priest) on Jun 19, 2009 at 09:10 UTC
I only now noticed that the error appears within an eval, executed during BEGIN. Maybe it would be a good idea to locate that eval block and see what gets evaluated here... -- Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>	[reply] [d/l]