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Are you using Ubuntu to create the .exe and then trying to run that on Windows? If so, that's your problem right there. Using pp, you can't build an executable one platform (Windows, Linux, Mac, etc.) and get that executable to run on another platform.

To create a Windows executable, you'll need to do this on Windows. Two popular Perl distributions for Windows are ActivePerl from ActiveState and http://strawberryperl.com/. If you're wanting to try Perl on Windows and don't want to install anything, I would recommend checking out portable Strawberry Perl, which does not install anything.

In order to install PAR::Packer (which has the pp utility), you'll definitely need a compiler and a make utility. Strawberry Perl already comes with both ready for use. With ActivePerl, you'll just need to use their PPM utility to install MinGW and dmake.

Of course, if you have Perl installed and have all the needed modules installed too, you might be able to just copy your script to your Windows system and just run it.

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Re^4: pp utility incompatibility issue with windows
by mailmeakhila (Sexton) on Apr 13, 2012 at 16:05 UTC
    Wow that was really helpful. Thank you so much
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Re^4: pp utility incompatibility issue with windows
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 14, 2012 at 16:02 UTC
    Hi dasgar, I am having trouble installing pp utility on strawberry perl. I am getting this error: 
    windres -o ppresource.coff winres\pp.res
windres: unexpected version string length 68 != 32 + 8
dmake:  Error code 129, while making 'ppresource.coff'
dmake:  Error code 255, while making 'subdirs'

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    Any idea. Thank you Akhila
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      Any idea.

      Do  dmake realclean then report everything from  perl Makefile.PL && dmake

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        I'm encountering the same problem running perl 5.14.2 on Windows XP from a Strawberry Perl 5.14.2.1-32bit distribution.

        After running dmake realclean, here is the output that you mentioned would be helpful from perl Makefile.PL and dmake:

        C:\DwimPerl\perl\Downloads\PAR-Packer-1.013>perl Makefile.PL
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Prototype mismatch: sub main::prompt: none vs ($;$) at C:/DwimPerl/per
+l/lib/ExtU
tils/MakeMaker.pm line 219
Writing Makefile for par.exe
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
Writing Makefile for PAR::Packer
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json

C:\DwimPerl\perl\Downloads\PAR-Packer-1.013>dmake
cp lib/App/Packer/PAR.pm blib\lib\App\Packer\PAR.pm
cp lib/PAR/Packer.pm blib\lib\PAR\Packer.pm
cp lib/PAR/Filter/Obfuscate.pm blib\lib\PAR\Filter\Obfuscate.pm
cp lib/PAR/Filter/PodStrip.pm blib\lib\PAR\Filter\PodStrip.pm
cp lib/PAR/StrippedPARL/Base.pm blib\lib\PAR\StrippedPARL\Base.pm
cp lib/PAR/Filter.pm blib\lib\PAR\Filter.pm
cp lib/PAR/Filter/PatchContent.pm blib\lib\PAR\Filter\PatchContent.pm
cp lib/PAR/Filter/Bytecode.pm blib\lib\PAR\Filter\Bytecode.pm
cp lib/pp.pm blib\lib\pp.pm
cp lib/PAR/Filter/Bleach.pm blib\lib\PAR\Filter\Bleach.pm
C:\DwimPerl\perl\bin\perl.exe file2c.pl -s ..\script\par.pl my_par_pl.
+c load_my_
par_pl
C:\DwimPerl\perl\bin\perl.exe sha1.c.PL
gcc -c -s -O2 -DWIN32  -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DP
+ERL_IMPLIC
IT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -fno-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields  -I
+"C:\DwimPe
rl\perl\lib\CORE"  -DLOAD_MY_LIBGCC -DPARL_EXE=\"parl.exe\" -s -O2 mai
+n.c
windres -F pei-i386 -i winres\pp.rc -o winres\pp.res
windres -o ppresource.coff winres\pp.res
windres: unexpected version string length 68 != 32 + 8
dmake:  Error code 129, while making 'ppresource.coff'
dmake:  Error code 255, while making 'subdirs'

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