On Thu, 01 May 2008, Spencer Chase wrote:
>  
>  Greetings Pdk,
>  
>  I have had little trouble running exes made with PerlApp on Vista with
>  one exception. Of course, this is the app that I bought the Vista
>  machine specifically to run so I am motivated to get it working. It
>  works fine when run from Komodo or from the perl interpreter. As an
>  exe. the command window shows briefly and then disappears before I can
>  see any error messages.
> 
>  The problem has something to do with the Archive::Extract module. The
>  following test works fine if Archive::Extract is commented out and the
>  exe made from that script. Including use Archive::Extract causes the
>  exe to not work although it works fine as a .pl run from the
>  interpreter or Komodo.

I don't think this is related to Vista at all; I see the same problem
on XP.  I wonder why you are not seeing any error messages in the
console though; are you using the --gui option?

Anyways, the problem is that Archive::Extract uses IPC::Cmd, which use
ExtUtil::MakeMaker (I kid you not) to run external programs.  PerlApp
doesn't realize that ExtUtils::MakeMaker on Windows requires
ExtUtils::MM_Win32.  Adding this module manually made the problem go
away.  Still don't know if ExtUtils::MakeMaker will really work
sensibly when embedded in a PerlAppified application though, as your
sample program was just loading the Archive::Extract module, not
doing anything with it.

I would prefer to use a fully contained module for a "compiled"
application instead of one that goes out to the filesystem to
find [tar unzip gzip bunzip2 uncompress] binaries to run.

Cheers,
-Jan


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