Why behaviour changes after converting to exe

[madtoperl]

Hi Monks,

Nice day!!I am running this code in Activeperl 5.8,I have the following piece of code,

#!/bin/perl-w 
use DateTime;
print"Hello world\n";

When i run the above code in .pl file,it is working fine.But when i converted it to exe file by using par module and running the exe file,it is showing the message that en_US.pm moudle not found as shown below,

C:\Perl\bin>perdate.exe
Can't locate DateTime/Locale/en_US.pm in @INC (@INC contains: CODE(0xd
+facec) C:\
DOCUME~1\regan\LOCALS~1\Temp\par-regan\cache-1154325548/inc/lib C:\DOC
+UME~1\rega
n\LOCALS~1\Temp\par-regan\cache-1154325548/inc CODE(0xceaa3c) .) at (e
+val 14) li
ne 3.
Compilation failed in require at script/perdate.pl line 2.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at script/perdate.pl line 2.

Could anyone explain me why its behaviour changes when converted to exe file.Also when i tried to install the en_US module by using ppm,i found the following error

C:\Perl\bin>ppm install en_US
Error: Failed to download URL http://www.soulcage.net/ppds.58/en_US.pp
+d: 404 No
 Found

I googled it to found in other site,Quite not found anywhere.Pls help me to solve this issue??

[reneeb]

the en_US.pm file is part of the DateTime::Locale distribution. Try to add the module to the PAR archive manually:

pp -M DateTime::Locale -o script.exe script.pl

[syphilis]

pp -M DateTime::Locale -o script.exe script.pl

That doesn't work for me ... close, but not quite. I found I had to specifically load DateTime::Locale::en_US:

pp -M DateTime::Locale::en_US -o script.exe script.pl

Cheers,
Rob

[madtoperl]

Hi syphilis,

That worked fine for me.Thanks a lot.But I am assigning some values to that by creating an object,see the code below,

#!/bin/perl-w 
    use DateTime;
        
                my $runtime = DateTime->new(
                    year   => 2006,
                    month  => 07,
                    day    => 31,
                    hour   => 9,
                    minute => 54,
                    #time_zone => "America/Los_Angeles",
                    time_zone => "Indian/Christmas",
          );

          print"Runtime=> $runtime\n";

When I run the above code by using .pl file it is working.But when i convert it to exe by using pp -M DateTime::Locale::en_US -o perdate.exe perdate.pl it is not working and showing the meesage,

C:\Perl\bin>perdate.exe
The timezone 'Indian/Christmas' could not be loaded, or is an invalid 
+name.

But that timezone is already found and working fine for .pl file.Could you suggest why?? and help me to solve this.

[madtoperl]

Hi reneeb,

Thanks for your try.But again the converted exe is giving the same error.Any other suggestion please.

Thanks.

[dirving]

You may be able to use the -x switch of pp to have it catch these dependencies. Be careful though: because this switch actually runs the program, if the program never terminates or does some destructive operation this might have undesired effects.