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

[Mark W. <ma...@ne...>]

Hi

I have successfully compiled several scripts as an executable using the
PDK.

As a start, try updating the PDK to build 403 as it has numerous fixes.

Regards
Mark

> From: "David Kaufman" <da...@po...>
> To: <wxp...@li...>
> Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 11:19:40 -0400
> Subject: [wxperl-users] how to compile wxPerl script to an 
> .exe with PerlApp?
> 
> 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