barcode renders from script, but not executable

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

Hello Monks, I'm using GD::Barcode::QRcode to render QR codes. Works great with perl, but when I make the perl script into an executable with perlapp the data does not render into the graphic. It creates a QR code, but it is the the bare QR code, not data. Here is the code

use GD::Barcode::QRcode;
my $message = "help me perl monks";
my $barcode = GD::Barcode::QRcode->new(
                $message, { Ecc => 'L', Version=>6, ModuleSize => 2})-
+>plot->png;
my $file = 'QR_Code.png';
open($fh,">", $file) || die;    
binmode($fh);
print $fh $barcode;
close $fh;
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here is the perlapp command:

perlapp --norunlib --xclude --nocompress --verbose --warnings --force --exe generate_qr_x.exe --perl C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe generate_qr_x.pl

Any thoughts? Thanks.

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Re: barcode renders from script, but not executable by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Dec 01, 2011 at 02:05 UTC
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "bare code"; however, I think that you were missing a few critical parts. Try this: `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use GD::Barcode::QRcode; my $oGdBar = GD::Barcode::QRcode->new( 'QRcode', { Ecc => 'M', Version => 6, ModuleSize => 2, } ); print "PTN:", $oGdBar->{text}, ":", $oGdBar->barcode, "\n"; open OUT, '>', 'QRcode.png' or die $!; binmode OUT; print OUT $oGdBar->plot->png; close OUT; open OUT, '>', 'QRcode.txt'; print OUT $oGdBar->barcode(); close OUT; undef $oGdBar;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: barcode renders from script, but not executable by cloned (Novice) on Dec 01, 2011 at 16:34 UTC
copy and pasted your code. Works perfectly as a perl script, same as mine. But, when I make it an executable with perlapp it will only render a blank (bare) QR code. So making it an executable breaks the rendering of the actual barcode data. If I knew how to upload a .png I could show you what I mean.	[reply]
Re: barcode renders from script, but not executable by TJPride (Pilgrim) on Dec 01, 2011 at 01:49 UTC
Is there a particular reason why it has to be compiled in the first place?	[reply]
Re^2: barcode renders from script, but not executable by cloned (Novice) on Dec 01, 2011 at 16:28 UTC
It needs to run on a machine that will not have perl on it.	[reply]