I use Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 3.

I think in my case it does not matter if it is gui or console because the creation of a resource section already seems to fail.

This code

use strict;
use warnings;

use Win32::Exe;
my $exe = Win32::Exe->new('test.exe');

$exe = $exe->create_resource_section if !$exe->has_resource_section;
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produces this error:

No resource section found in file test.exe at C:/Perl/site/lib/Win32/E
+xe.pm line 348.
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Cheers,

Dirk

Now I executed the test of Par::Packer

Here you can see the result:

C:\Temp\PAR-Packer-1.006>dmake test
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -e "chmod(oct('0600'), '..\blib\lib\PAR\StrippedP
+ARL\Static.pm');"
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe encode_append.pl static.exe ..\blib\lib\PAR\Strip
+pedPARL\Static.pm
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -e "chmod(oct('0444'), '..\blib\lib\PAR\StrippedP
+ARL\Static.pm');"
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -e "chmod(oct('0600'), '..\blib\lib\PAR\StrippedP
+ARL\Dynamic.pm');"
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe encode_append.pl par.exe ..\blib\lib\PAR\Stripped
+PARL\Dynamic.pm
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -e "chmod(oct('0444'), '..\blib\lib\PAR\StrippedP
+ARL\Dynamic.pm');"
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, '
+inc', 'blib\lib', 'blib\arch')" t/00-pod.t t/10-pa
rl-generation.t  t/20-pp.t t/30-current_exec.t t/40-packer_cd_option.t
t/00-pod.t ............... skipped: Set environment variable PERL_TEST
+_POD=1 to test POD
t/10-parl-generation.t ... ok
t/20-pp.t ................ 31/34 No resource section found in file par
+lW2ct.exe at C:/Perl/site/lib/Win32/Exe.pm line 34
8.
No resource section found in file parlW2ct.exe at C:/Perl/site/lib/Win
+32/Exe.pm line 348.
Can't call method "remove" on an undefined value at C:/Perl/site/lib/W
+in32/Exe.pm line 473.

#   Failed test 'pp_gui_tests
# amsg572: sub pp_gui_tests cannot system pp --gui --icon hi.ico -o he
+llo.exe hello.pl:No such file or directory:
# '
t/20-pp.t ................ 32/34 #   at automated_pp_test.pl line 8445
+.
t/20-pp.t ................ 34/34 # Looks like you failed 1 test of 34.
t/20-pp.t ................ Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
Failed 1/34 subtests
t/30-current_exec.t ...... # Please wait
t/30-current_exec.t ...... ok
t/40-packer_cd_option.t .. ok

Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/20-pp.t              (Wstat: 256 Tests: 34 Failed: 1)
  Failed test:  32
  Non-zero exit status: 1
Files=5, Tests=71, 487 wallclock secs ( 0.05 usr +  0.03 sys =  0.08 C
+PU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 1/5 test programs. 1/71 subtests failed.
dmake.exe:  Error code 255, while making 'test_dynamic'
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But the problem seems to be in Win32::Exe and NOT in Par::Packer.

But the problem seems to be in Win32::Exe and NOT in Par::Packer

What version of Win32::Exe ? (I'm using 0.14, which seems to be fine.)

Btw, that's the same test failure as was reported on the PAR mailing list ... dunno what's going on ...

Cheers,
Rob