Hello everybody, I wanted to share with you, how I could use pp with Tcl::Tk. This topic was discussed here some years ago (see https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.tcltk/2015/09/msg682.html), but the proposed solutions didn't work for me.
The problem is, that one has to change the shell environment variabe $ENV{TCL_Library}. But this is not simple, because the child process (the perl program) cannot change the environment variables of the parent process. My solution was the following BEGIN block: BEGIN { if ($ENV{PAR_TEMP} && $ENV{TCL_Library} ne "$ENV{PAR_TEMP}/inc/lib/tcl8.6") { print "Starting a Tcl::Tk PAR-exe file\n"; print "We need to set shell environment variables first \n"; $ENV{TCL_Library} = "$ENV{PAR_TEMP}/inc/lib/tcl8.6"; # I don't know whether this is really necessary? $ENV{TK_Library} = "$ENV{PAR_TEMP}/inc/lib/tcl8.6"; system($0); exit(); } } To pack the perl script I use this command: pp -l "C:/Tcl/bin/tcl86.dll" -l "c:/Tcl/bin/tk86.dll" -l "c:/Tcl/bin/zlib1.dll" -a "C:/Tcl;./" -o tktest.exe ./tktest.pl Important is to rename the directory C:/Tcl to "./". Especially you must have the point before the "/". I don't know why ;-) but it works ... Perhaps this is helpful for someone... Best wishes, Max