[wxperl-users] Re: how to compile wxPerl script to an .exe with PerlApp?

[Nick J. <sk...@er...>]

I had the exact same problem.

To fix it, just copy the "auto" directory containing the 
wxWindows/wxPerl .DLL files into the directory with your script in it. 
It worked fine for me then.

If the --gui causes a "Bad command or filename" or the equivalent 
NT/Win2k error to appear, I have a fix for that too. In Perl's config 
files, one of the vars contains the location to Perl's binary. I think 
it might be PERL5BIN but I honestly can't remember. Anyway the problem 
is caused when this path includes UNIX-style forward slashes rather than 
the DOS/Windows style slashes. AFAIK this is because the PerlApp program 
runs another program which modifies the executable to be a GUI program. 
And command.com doesn't take kindly to UNIX-style slashes.

Hope this works. It took me ages to figure this out, I don't know why 
PDK cannot include the required files automatically.

Regards,


Nick Johnston

David Kaufman wrote:

>Has anyone successfully converted a simple "hello world" wxPerl script
>into an .exe using the Activestate PDK's PerlApp utility?
>
>i've been trying all day with no joy.  the .exe failed silently until i
>tried compiling it without the -gui option.  after droppping the -gui, i
>see this error on stderr (at run time, not compile time):
>
>Can't load 'auto/Wx/Wx.dll' for module Wx: load_file:One of the library
>files ne
>eded to run this application cannot be found at /PerlApp/DynaLoader.pm
>line 212.
>
>but the "verbose" perlapp output (below) clearly shows that perlapp
>found and included the Wx.dll:
>
>PerlApp 4.0.0 build 401
>Copyright (C) ActiveState Corp 2001-2002. All rights reserved.
>Commercial license for David Kaufman <da...@gi...>
>
>+++ C:/Perl/lib/AutoLoader.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/lib/Carp.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/lib/Carp/Heavy.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/lib/Config.pm
>+++ DynaLoader.pm (internal)
>+++ C:/Perl/lib/Errno.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/lib/Exporter.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/lib/Exporter/Heavy.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/lib/File/Glob.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/lib/Text/ParseWords.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/lib/Tie/Handle.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/App.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/Bitmap.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/Brush.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/Caret.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/Colour.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/ComboBox.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/ControlWithItems.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/Cursor.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/DC.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/DND.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/DropSource.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/Event.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/FS.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/Grid.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/Help.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/Html.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/Icon.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/Image.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/ImageList.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/ListCtrl.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/Locale.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/MDI.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/Menu.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/Pen.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/Print.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/RadioBox.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/Rect.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/Region.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/STC.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/ScreenDC.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/Sizer.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/SplashScreen.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/StaticBitmap.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/Timer.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/ToolBar.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/TreeCtrl.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/Window.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/_Constants.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/_Exp.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/_Functions.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/_Inheritance.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/_Ovl.pm
>+++ XSLoader.pm (internal)
>+++ C:/Perl/lib/auto/DynaLoader/autosplit.ix
>+++ C:/Perl/lib/auto/DynaLoader/dl_expandspec.al
>+++ C:/Perl/lib/auto/DynaLoader/dl_find_symbol_anywhere.al
>+++ C:/Perl/lib/auto/DynaLoader/dl_findfile.al
>+++ C:/Perl/lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.dll
>+++ C:/Perl/lib/auto/File/Glob/autosplit.ix
>+++ C:/Perl/site/lib/auto/Wx/Wx.dll
>+++ C:/Perl/lib/base.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/lib/fields.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/lib/overload.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/lib/strict.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/lib/vars.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/lib/warnings.pm
>+++ C:/Perl/lib/warnings/register.pm
>
>Created 'test.exe'
>
>
>
>any help would be greatly appreaciated,
>
>-dave
>
>
>
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