Problems with Date::Manip with ActiveState Perl/PDK

[ozboomer]

Hi again, everyone... Another curly question, that seems to be causing a lot of grief, as near as I can tell...

Like a lot of folk, I'm having all sorts of troubles with getting Date::Manip to work with PDK 9.3.0 and ActiveState Perl 5.16.3 running on Windows 7.

Here's a simple Perl script that I've borrowed from elsewhere for some testing:-

use Date::Manip;

BEGIN {
        $Date::Manip::Backend = 'DM5';
   }

my $version = DateManipVersion(1);
print $version, "\n";
Date_Init("TZ=EAST"); #dep

Note that I've included the suggested 'backend spec' in the script.

Now, when I run this script with the Perl interpreter, everything works Ok (using both DM5 and DM6)... but if I run PerlApp.exe (from the PDK) to build a standalone .exe, the following error is shown when the resulting .exe is run:-

ERROR LOADING MODULE: Date::Manip::DM5 at /<C:\test\test.exe>Date
/Manip.pm line 35.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at test.pl line 4.

When the 'interpreted' version runs, the output is:-

6.44 [australia/sydney]

...which is what's expected.

Has anyone worked-out a way to get all this working (specifically under Windows 7)... or will I have to roll-back to Perl 5.8.9/PDK 6.0.2, which is what I've been using on WinXP..?

Thanks.

[Anonymous Monk]

perlmonks perlapp Date::Manip -> Re^3: PerlApp created exe doesn't work. Please help, PerlApp created exe doesn't work. Please help, Re: Troubles creating a .exe, Re^2: PerlApp created exe doesn't work. Please help

perlapp --add Date::Manip::** foo.pl

[ozboomer]

Dang. I *thought* I tried that... through the last few hours(!)...

...but anyway, that certainly works for the example... I'll try it on some other scripts and see how it goes...

Many thanks for the clues..

-John