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jowe has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello PerlMonks, using

in a 'Windows 7 (32bit)', 'Strawberry 5.22.0.1' environment.

It seems like not all required DLL's are included in the resulting output (.exe).

The following example will demonstrate it:

pp -f Crypto -M Filter::Crypto::Decrypt -C -x --vvv -L ppLog_tstCrypto +.txt -o tstCrypto.exe -e "print 'Its_me';"
The pp-logfile has the following content:
C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: Packing C:\Users\indesu\AppData\Local\ +Temp\pp1bkn6.pl C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: Writing PAR on C:\Users\indesu\AppData +\Local\Temp\ppa6vGT.par C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/Carp +.pm as lib/Carp.pm C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/Conf +ig.pm as lib/Config.pm C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/Conf +ig_git.pl as lib/Config_git.pl C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/Conf +ig_heavy.pl as lib/Config_heavy.pl C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/Dyna +Loader.pm as lib/DynaLoader.pm C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/Expo +rter.pm as lib/Exporter.pm C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/Expo +rter/Heavy.pm as lib/Exporter/Heavy.pm C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/File +/Glob.pm as lib/File/Glob.pm C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib +/Filter/Crypto/Decrypt.pm as lib/Filter/Crypto/Decrypt.pm C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/XSLo +ader.pm as lib/XSLoader.pm C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/auto +/File/Glob/Glob.xs.dll as lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.xs.dll C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib +/auto/Filter/Crypto/Decrypt/Decrypt.xs.dll as lib/auto/Filter/Crypto/ +Decrypt/Decrypt.xs.dll C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding C:/Users/indesu/AppData/Loc +al/Temp/pp1bkn6.pl as lib/pp1bkn6.pl C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/stri +ct.pm as lib/strict.pm C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/vars +.pm as lib/vars.pm C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/warn +ings.pm as lib/warnings.pm C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/warn +ings/register.pm as lib/warnings/register.pm C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding <string> as MANIFEST C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding <string> as META.yml C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding <string> as lib/Carp.pm C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding <string> as lib/Config.pm C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/Conf +ig_git.pl as lib/Config_git.pl C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/Conf +ig_heavy.pl as lib/Config_heavy.pl C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding <string> as lib/DynaLoader. +pm C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding <string> as lib/Exporter.pm C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding <string> as lib/Exporter/He +avy.pm C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding <string> as lib/File/Glob.p +m C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding <string> as lib/Filter/Cryp +to/Decrypt.pm C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding <string> as lib/XSLoader.pm C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/auto +/File/Glob/Glob.xs.dll as lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.xs.dll C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib +/auto/Filter/Crypto/Decrypt/Decrypt.xs.dll as lib/auto/Filter/Crypto/ +Decrypt/Decrypt.xs.dll C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding <string> as lib/strict.pm C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding <string> as lib/vars.pm C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding <string> as lib/warnings.pm C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding <string> as lib/warnings/re +gister.pm C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding <string> as script/main.pl C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... adding <string> as script/pp1bkn6. +pl C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... updating MANIFEST C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: ... updating META.yml C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: *** C:\Users\indesu\AppData\Local\Temp +\ppa6vGT.par: 88951 bytes read, 62266 compressed, 29% saved. C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: Generating a fresh 'parl'. C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: Running C:\Users\indesu\AppData\Local\ +Temp\parlfS3P3Sd.exe -LppLog_tstCrypto.txt -B -OtstCrypto.exe C:\User +s\indesu\AppData\Local\Temp\ppa6vGT.par Packing "Config_git.pl"... Written as "Config_git.pl" Packing "Config.pm"... Written as "Config.pm" Packing "Compress/Raw/Zlib.pm"... Written as "Compress/Raw/Zlib.pm" Packing "Carp/Heavy.pm"... Written as "Carp/Heavy.pm" Packing "Compress/Zlib.pm"... Written as "Compress/Zlib.pm" Packing "Carp.pm"... Written as "Carp.pm" Packing "Config_heavy.pl"... Written as "Config_heavy.pl" Packing "Cwd.pm"... Written as "Cwd.pm" Packing "DynaLoader.pm"... Written as "DynaLoader.pm" Packing "Encode.pm"... Written as "Encode.pm" Packing "Encode/Alias.pm"... Written as "Encode/Alias.pm" Packing "Encode/Config.pm"... Written as "Encode/Config.pm" Packing "Encode/Encoding.pm"... Written as "Encode/Encoding.pm" Packing "Errno.pm"... Written as "Errno.pm" Packing "Exporter.pm"... Written as "Exporter.pm" Packing "Exporter/Heavy.pm"... Written as "Exporter/Heavy.pm" Packing "Fcntl.pm"... Written as "Fcntl.pm" Packing "File/Basename.pm"... Written as "File/Basename.pm" Packing "File/Copy.pm"... Written as "File/Copy.pm" Packing "File/Find.pm"... Written as "File/Find.pm" Packing "File/Glob.pm"... Written as "File/Glob.pm" Packing "File/GlobMapper.pm"... Written as "File/GlobMapper.pm" Packing "File/Path.pm"... Written as "File/Path.pm" Packing "File/Spec.pm"... Written as "File/Spec.pm" Packing "File/Spec/Unix.pm"... Written as "File/Spec/Unix.pm" Packing "File/Spec/Win32.pm"... Written as "File/Spec/Win32.pm" Packing "File/Temp.pm"... Written as "File/Temp.pm" Packing "FileHandle.pm"... Written as "FileHandle.pm" Packing "IO.pm"... Written as "IO.pm" Packing "IO/Compress/Adapter/Deflate.pm"... Written as "IO/Compress/Adapter/Deflate.pm" Packing "IO/Compress/Base.pm"... Written as "IO/Compress/Base.pm" Packing "IO/Compress/Base/Common.pm"... Written as "IO/Compress/Base/Common.pm" Packing "IO/Compress/Gzip.pm"... Written as "IO/Compress/Gzip.pm" Packing "IO/Compress/Gzip/Constants.pm"... Written as "IO/Compress/Gzip/Constants.pm" Packing "IO/Compress/RawDeflate.pm"... Written as "IO/Compress/RawDeflate.pm" Packing "IO/Compress/Zlib/Extra.pm"... Written as "IO/Compress/Zlib/Extra.pm" Packing "IO/File.pm"... Written as "IO/File.pm" Packing "IO/Handle.pm"... Written as "IO/Handle.pm" Packing "IO/Seekable.pm"... Written as "IO/Seekable.pm" Packing "IO/Uncompress/Adapter/Inflate.pm"... Written as "IO/Uncompress/Adapter/Inflate.pm" Packing "IO/Uncompress/Base.pm"... Written as "IO/Uncompress/Base.pm" Packing "IO/Uncompress/Gunzip.pm"... Written as "IO/Uncompress/Gunzip.pm" Packing "IO/Uncompress/RawInflate.pm"... Written as "IO/Uncompress/RawInflate.pm" Packing "List/Util.pm"... Written as "List/Util.pm" Packing "PerlIO.pm"... Written as "PerlIO.pm" Packing "PerlIO/scalar.pm"... Written as "PerlIO/scalar.pm" Packing "Scalar/Util.pm"... Written as "Scalar/Util.pm" Packing "SelectSaver.pm"... Written as "SelectSaver.pm" Packing "Symbol.pm"... Written as "Symbol.pm" Packing "Tie/Hash/NamedCapture.pm"... Written as "Tie/Hash/NamedCapture.pm" Packing "Time/Local.pm"... Written as "Time/Local.pm" Packing "Win32.pm"... Written as "Win32.pm" Packing "XSLoader.pm"... Written as "XSLoader.pm" Packing "attributes.pm"... Written as "attributes.pm" Packing "base.pm"... Written as "base.pm" Packing "bytes.pm"... Written as "bytes.pm" Packing "constant.pm"... Written as "constant.pm" Packing "integer.pm"... Written as "integer.pm" Packing "lib.pm"... Written as "lib.pm" Packing "overload.pm"... Written as "overload.pm" Packing "overloading.pm"... Written as "overloading.pm" Packing "parent.pm"... Written as "parent.pm" Packing "strict.pm"... Written as "strict.pm" Packing "utf8.pm"... Written as "utf8.pm" Packing "vars.pm"... Written as "vars.pm" Packing "warnings.pm"... Written as "warnings.pm" Packing "warnings/register.pm"... Written as "warnings/register.pm" Packing "PAR.pm"... Written as "PAR.pm" Packing "PAR/Filter.pm"... Written as "PAR/Filter.pm" Packing "PAR/Filter/PatchContent.pm"... Written as "PAR/Filter/PatchContent.pm" Packing "PAR/Filter/PodStrip.pm"... Written as "PAR/Filter/PodStrip.pm" Packing "PAR/Heavy.pm"... Written as "PAR/Heavy.pm" Packing "PAR/SetupProgname.pm"... Written as "PAR/SetupProgname.pm" Packing "PAR/SetupTemp.pm"... Written as "PAR/SetupTemp.pm" Packing "Archive/Zip.pm"... Written as "Archive/Zip.pm" Packing "Archive/Zip/Archive.pm"... Written as "Archive/Zip/Archive.pm" Packing "Archive/Zip/DirectoryMember.pm"... Written as "Archive/Zip/DirectoryMember.pm" Packing "Archive/Zip/FileMember.pm"... Written as "Archive/Zip/FileMember.pm" Packing "Archive/Zip/Member.pm"... Written as "Archive/Zip/Member.pm" Packing "Archive/Zip/NewFileMember.pm"... Written as "Archive/Zip/NewFileMember.pm" Packing "Archive/Zip/StringMember.pm"... Written as "Archive/Zip/StringMember.pm" Packing "Archive/Zip/ZipFileMember.pm"... Written as "Archive/Zip/ZipFileMember.pm" Packing "PAR/Dist.pm"... Written as "PAR/Dist.pm" Packing "C:\Users\indesu\AppData\Local\Temp\par-696e64657375\cache-681 +a18272ef4aadac39226f3a69834785c8a12e6/42f0da6c.dll"... Written as "auto/attributes/attributes.xs.dll" Packing "C:\Users\indesu\AppData\Local\Temp\par-696e64657375\cache-681 +a18272ef4aadac39226f3a69834785c8a12e6/6381b17c.dll"... Written as "auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs.dll" Packing "C:\Users\indesu\AppData\Local\Temp\par-696e64657375\cache-681 +a18272ef4aadac39226f3a69834785c8a12e6/65a2e229.dll"... Written as "auto/List/Util/Util.xs.dll" Packing "C:\Users\indesu\AppData\Local\Temp\par-696e64657375\cache-681 +a18272ef4aadac39226f3a69834785c8a12e6/7013e796.dll"... Written as "auto/IO/IO.xs.dll" Packing "C:\Users\indesu\AppData\Local\Temp\par-696e64657375\cache-681 +a18272ef4aadac39226f3a69834785c8a12e6/71e37bc8.dll"... Written as "auto/Compress/Raw/Zlib/Zlib.xs.dll" Packing "C:\Users\indesu\AppData\Local\Temp\par-696e64657375\cache-681 +a18272ef4aadac39226f3a69834785c8a12e6/85aec634.dll"... Written as "auto/File/Glob/Glob.xs.dll" Packing "C:\Users\indesu\AppData\Local\Temp\par-696e64657375\cache-681 +a18272ef4aadac39226f3a69834785c8a12e6/ae1b6876.dll"... Written as "auto/Tie/Hash/NamedCapture/NamedCapture.xs.dll" Packing "C:\Users\indesu\AppData\Local\Temp\par-696e64657375\cache-681 +a18272ef4aadac39226f3a69834785c8a12e6/af0170c5.dll"... Written as "auto/Encode/Encode.xs.dll" Packing "C:\Users\indesu\AppData\Local\Temp\par-696e64657375\cache-681 +a18272ef4aadac39226f3a69834785c8a12e6/d276a8be.dll"... Written as "auto/Cwd/Cwd.xs.dll" Packing "C:\Users\indesu\AppData\Local\Temp\par-696e64657375\cache-681 +a18272ef4aadac39226f3a69834785c8a12e6/e2898345.dll"... Written as "auto/Win32/Win32.xs.dll" Packing "C:\Users\indesu\AppData\Local\Temp\par-696e64657375\cache-681 +a18272ef4aadac39226f3a69834785c8a12e6/f3af5040.dll"... Written as "auto/PerlIO/scalar/scalar.xs.dll"
When executing this example in a Windows 7 (32bit) non-Perl environment I receive the following error message:
C:\>tstCrypto.exe Can't load 'C:\Users\Jo\AppData\Local\Temp\par-4a6f\temp-2432\nmtRPcuQ +p9.xs.dll' for module Filter::Crypto::Decrypt: load_file:Das angegebene Modul wu +rde nicht gefunden at C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 193. at C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/PAR/Heavy.pm line 120. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Filter/Crypto/Decrypt.pm line 37. Compilation failed in require at script/pp1bkn6.pl line 1. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at script/pp1bkn6.pl line 1. C:\> ---------------------------------------------------- Remark: Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden = Requested module n +ot found ----------------------------------------------------
Is there anything I am doing wrong? Your help is very much appreciated.

Thanks very much in advance - Jo