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I'm at a loss to see how this is happening in Spreadsheet::WriteExcel, either inside or outside of a Cava package.

Could you add Devel::SimpleTrace to your program and post the stack trace of the failing code.

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Re^4: add_chart_ext does not work when compressed
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 21, 2011 at 09:49 UTC
    maybe his $cwd isn't meshing with add_chart_ext('.\charts\run_chart.bin' or maybe he is filtering the packed modules through PodStrip or another one
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      That was my first thought too but in that case there should be a different error message like this: 
          Couldn't open .\charts\run_chart.bin in add_chart_ext():
    No such file or directory.

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      The particular error message that is being reported, "Chart type 'External' not supported in add_chart()" is generated when you try to add a chart type that doesn't exist via add_chart() (and not from add_chart_ext() as report by the OP): 

          my $chart = $workbook->add_chart( type => 'foo' );
    ...
    Chart type 'Foo' not supported in add_chart()

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      However, there is an 'External' chart module (albeit invalid in this case) so if a program inadvertently tried to load it it would generate another different error message. As such I cannot see any way that particular error message can be generated.

      Confused? I am and I wrote the module. Hopefully the stack trace will clear things up a bit.

      Update: I was wrong about this. The External.pm module is loaded using the same factory method as the other Chart modules. I was clearly smoking a bit too much Java at the time I wrote it.

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        However, there is an 'External' chart module (albeit invalid in this case) so if a program inadvertently tried to load it it would generate another different error message. As such I cannot see any way that particular error message can be generated.

        Confused? I am and I wrote the module. Hopefully the stack trace will clear things up a bit.

        Yup. It probably means Spreadsheet/WriteExcel/Chart/External.pm was not copied/packed by cava for whatever reason

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