I noticed that running a command such as:
pp -f Crypto -M Filter::Crypto::Decrypt -o test.exe test.pl
to apply encryption filtering to the test.pl script and include the
module needed to decrypt it in the PAR package wasn't working: the
decryption module, Filter::Crypto::Decrypt, wasn't getting its DLL
included in test.exe. Opening test.exe in WinZip, you can see that
Decrypt.pm is included but Decrypt.dll is not.
It turns out that "-M Module" doesn't seem to be working in general (not
specifically just for filtering modules), e.g.
pp -M DBI -o test.exe test.pl
only include DBI.pm, not the DBI.dll as well.
This in turn seems to be due a problem in Module-ScanDeps. I'm using
version 0.75, and I find that the output of
scandeps -V C:\perl5\site\lib\DBI.pm
mentions DBI.pm but not DBI.dll. If I try the same command using version
0.54 of Module-ScanDeps then DBI.dll is mentioned in the output too.
I'll see if I can find the first version that broke and/or the cause of
the breakage, but I thought I'd post here first in case someone in the
know and having a few spare tuits is able to get there quicker.
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