On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:41 PM, jason davis <j...@nonviolence.us> wrote:

> use Net::Telnet;
> ...
>
> F:\>pp -o test.exe test.pl
> <http://test.pl>
> F:\>test.exe
> Can't locate arybase.pm iin @INC
>

Net::Telnet references the long deprecated perl variable $[ which causes
arybase.pm to be loaded "behind the scene" (since Perl 5.16).
This isn't detected by Module::ScanDeps which is used by PAR::Packer to
find all the modules used by your script. Hence arybase.pm isn't packed
into test.exe and is missing when you run it.
An even smaller example of this is:

$ pp -o foo.exe -e '$['

There's several ways to work around this:

- use option -x for pp to not only analyze your script statically, but to
also run it once and observe what gets loaded at runtime

  $ pp -o test.exe -x ...

  But be aware of possible side effects.

- explicitly add arybase.pm with -M

  $ pp -o test.exe -Marybase


Cheers, Roderich

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