Newbie: Use PAR remote inside a PAR exe.

[Mike Schroeder]

Are there any tricks to using a remote PAR from within a PAR exe?  
Specifically, can I create a PAR binary "launcher" which is platform 
specific (i.e. a WIndows launcher versus a Linux lancher), which in turn 
calls remote pure Perl PAR files?

For example, in my launcher.pl, I have tried variations of:

use PAR "http://website/path/launcher.par";;
or
use PAR;
use lib "http://website/path/launcher.par";;
I then use "pp -o launch.exe launch.pl" to get a binary "launcher" to 
deploy which in turn *should* remotely fetch the freshest version of 
launcher.par.  I have this working in RH9, but am having trouble in 
Windows.  Since PAR is excluded from the pp process, is there some trick 
to getting it, and in turn LWP::Simple to be included in my exe file?  I 
have tried numerous variations (using -M params to pp, or adding the 
files to the PAR file before converting it to an exe, etc).

I amusing a number of -M args to pp to ensure that those modules I need 
that have dll/so (such as some wxPerl modules) are embedded into the 
binary launcher, saving me the hassle of fetching those remotely for 
different platforms - my remote PAR files should just be pure Perl.

The docs and message boards seem to imply this should be possible, and 
it does seem to be possible in Linux (unless I am not running into the 
problem since Perl and LWP::Simple seem default), I'm just wondering if 
there is some trick to how PAR.pm gets instantiated since it is not 
included in the PAR file itself.

Thanks for any advice.

Mike Schroeder
DonorWare LLC