If these are errors from PerlApp instead of .exe run time errors, then that means that the modules were not installed correctly using PPM. With ActiveState only use PPM for module installation! Active State PPM (Perl Package Manager) works with pre-compiled .ppd files. If the modules are installed correctly (ie with PPM), PerlApp will find the XS DLL's, etc.

I've been a PerlApp user for more than a decade and this thing works well. I would use the GUI version which allows you to save all of the settings as a type of "project file". This is easier than working with the command line and 5 bazillion options.

Anyway more of explanation of where this is going wrong would help. I hope what I said the first 2 paragraphs is helpful. I believe that is likely to solve your problem.

I do use PPM to install my packages. It actually is recently that I have started getting the errors using perlApp. When I try to add Net Module it says that it cannot locate it. I then go to ppm and it says that it is installed in the library it is pointing to.

This kind of "oh, it used to work, but it doesn't any more" question is different.

I would assume that something changed and we don't know what.What does your %path% environment variable say?

Did you upgrade Perl in the meantime?

It is possible to "re-initialize" your system. Of course a full back-up is mandatory before you try this!!!...

see "ppm help" for ppm profile save and ppm profile restore.

This generates an XML file that can be fed into ppm to re-install your modules. Make a profile, Uninstall Perl,reboot, reinstall Perl, use ppm to run this saved profile. DANGER: Depending upon the Perl upgrade history of your machine, this may cause some trouble!

However, at this point, I'm thinking that something has gone wrong in the path rather than some fundamental flaw in the installation. I mean you have runnable code outside of the .exe so something about your installation is right!

What does this mean: "When I try to add Net Module it says that it cannot locate it"? Add by what means?

For some strange reason your @INC array seems to be empty, hence perl will not be able to find any module. It simply does not know where to look for it.

To see if that is actually so, try to compile and run this: print "$_\n" for @INC;

Run it from the command line; from Komodo and from your .exe. You are likely to have three different results.

Warning: I am not a user of PerlApp.

For some strange reason your @INC array seems to be empty, hence perl will not be able to find any module.

No, perl can't find the files because they're not in the .exe, because perlapp didn't package them.

That perlapp makes @INC empty is irrelevant, since perlapp didn't pack the missing files because it didn't know it needed to pack them.

Helping perlapp by naming all the modules that need to be packed, I have adressed in Re: Troubles creating a .exe

One should have thought PerlApp could try to find itself the modules it uses.

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I get this output from the komodo IDE C:\Program Files (x86)\ActiveState Komodo IDE 5\lib\support\dbgp\perllib C:/Perl/site/lib C:/Perl/lib this from the command line C:/Perl/site/lib C:/Perl/lib and the perlapp lets me create a .exe but there is no output from it

That may because I am on Windows and you are on Linux?

The OP is on windows, and Google::Voice is a pure-perl module

Net.pm:
    error: Can't locate Net.pm
    refby: perlapp --add Net::

Please show how you invoke perlapp, and then do not add -add Net:: , there is no module named Net::

You should however add

--add Algorithm::Diff::XS  
--add Date::Calc::XS  
--add I18N::Langinfo  
--add JSON::PP58  

You can generate a list of modules to add by seeing which modules are actually loaded, like so

#!/usr/bin/perl --
CHECK {
    print "\n\nsystem qw[ perlapp\n";
    for my $k ( sort keys %INC ){
        if( $k =~ s/\.pm$// ){
            $k =~ s{/}{::}g;
            print "    --add $k\n";
        }
    }
    print "\n];\n\n ";
    exit 0;
}

use Net::Netrc ; use Encode::Locale; 
__END__
system qw[ perlapp
    --add Carp
    --add Config
    --add DynaLoader
    --add Encode
    --add Encode::Alias
    --add Encode::Byte
    --add Encode::Config
    --add Encode::Encoding
    --add Encode::Locale
    --add Exporter
    --add Exporter::Heavy
    --add Fcntl
    --add File::Basename
    --add File::Spec
    --add File::Spec::Unix
    --add File::Spec::Win32
    --add FileHandle
    --add IO
    --add IO::File
    --add IO::Handle
    --add IO::Seekable
    --add Net::Netrc
    --add SelectSaver
    --add Symbol
    --add Win32::API
    --add Win32::API::Struct
    --add Win32::API::Type
    --add Win32::Console
    --add XSLoader
    --add base
    --add bytes
    --add constant
    --add strict
    --add vars
    --add warnings
    --add warnings::register

];
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