It worked. I just had to manually include all of the modules that PAR *and *my script needed - inside the pp file. Thanks again and have a great weekend.
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 1:50 PM Daniel Knutsen <dmknut...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the feedback. Good thought. Gave it a try and it looks like > PAR is not packaging everything it needs when I pp "pp". The error I get > is "cant locate Heavy.pm". I'm going to keep experimenting with this to > see if I can get it grab everything it needs. > > Cheers, > > Dan > > On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 3:19 AM Roderich Schupp <roderich.sch...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 6:05 AM Daniel Knutsen <dmknut...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I am trying to distribute a perl script that generates stand-alone >>> executables using pp (via the system command...) to some co-worker(s). >>> They don't have Perl/PAR::Packer installed on their machines...so I am >>> trying to use PAR to basically "package itself" such that I can command >>> generation of the executable from inside the perl script in such a way that >>> I can then use pp to generate a executable version of the perl script. >>> This effectively results in a PAR generated executable that generates >>> another PAR generated executable.. >>> >> >> Just an idea: pp *both* your script and pp itself (which is just a Perl >> script after all) into an executable and invoke pp from your script not via >> "system", but with "do". >> >> Cheers, Roderich >> >