As kind of a desperation move, uninstall PerlApp and ActiveState Perl, reboot and then re-install them both. Something may have gone wrong with your installation during some previous experiment. This was suggested before, but I second this: look on the ActiveState site and make sure that your PerlApp is compatible with the version of Perl that you are installing.

Your program doesn't have any dependencies other than core functions. It should compile and run just fine as an "independent exe".

Only use ppm to install new modules! ActiveState compiles the stuff in their repository and the installation will include their binary builds when needed. If you ever need to build a binary yourself, install the ActiveState version of mingw (its in their repository and use ppm to do that).

Update: stuff like this: "I corrected that by pointing the directory to a different location" sounds a bit fishy. You shouldn't have to do anything like that! ppm knows where to install stuff and how to setup the paths. It is possible that you have created a path problem and hopefully the uninstall and re-install will set things right. BTW are you on Vista or XP?

Sorry for the belated reply.

I've never come across the error message you quoted and, of course, there is no file named libcc_s_sjlj.dll in my system. I tried to compile your script and (apart from a redundant "my" in the last line) it compiled fine and ran on systems with and without Perl installed (download the compiled script from http://www.iota.gr/test.exe and check it out yourself).

So, my best guess at this point would be that you are probably using a version of Perl that is not supported by the version of PerlApp that you are running.