Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Win XP styles

[Jan D. <ja...@ac...>]

On Wed, 05 Nov 2008, rpnoble wrote:
> 
> 
> Use the "-a=filename" option when working with perlapp. This will pack the
> filename and allow you to ship it with your application.

You cannot --add an arbitrary file; --add is for Perl code only. You could use
--bind to add a data file, but this still won't work for manifests.  They need
to be available to the Windows loader, which means they either need to be
embedded as a resource section in the executable itself, or be placed as a
separate file into the same directory as the executable (with the same name
as the executable suffixed with ".manifest").

None of this is relevant to PerlApp, which already contains a manifest to
request the new style common controls. Note that the original poster
was using PAR, not PerlApp.

Cheers,
-Jan