Hi, from memory, $0 contains the full path to your exec when packaged.
Try packaging print qq(\$0 = $0\n); print qq(\$^X = $^X\n); and see what it gives you. This should mean that $0 should always work in packaged code if it worked in the script. (I think !!!) Regards Mark Louis-Philippe wrote: > Hi All, > > I am new to PAR & pp, I discovered it this week when I ran into trouble > trying to package scripts with PerlApp that PerlApp wouln't package because > of version compatibility... so I tried pp an just felt in love with is > simplicity & free nature. > > so, now I am trying to port my script to pp, and one command is missing from > my toolkit: > in PerlApp, I am aple to call PerlApp::exe() to get the executable file > directory, > something I would do with cwd() inside of a straight .pl script... > I tried cwd() with a pp executable and it returns the shell working directory > (i.e. my home folder). > anybody knows how to grab the executable directory path with pp? > > thanks! > > l-p
