I had previously followed the pp_simple link. It took me to a page of code from Anonymous Monk which does not run because "wxpar" was not found, and seemed to have nothing to do with pp_simple. I had also previously looked at App::PP::Autolink in CPAN. The examples showed using "pp_simple program-name", but said nothing about what pp_simple is or where/how to get it.
Thanks again for the suggestions, but unfortunately this has become as frustrating and tedious as trying to get "pp" to produce a working executable in the first place. Right now, life is too short to keep going down rabbit trails, especially when I installed perl2exe, ran it, and got the working executable I was after. It just works.
The monetary price of "pp", et al is certainly right ($0.00), but the price in terms of time spent trying to get it to work and the accompanying frustration is just too high right now. The price I invested in purchasing perl2exe is worth every cent.
As an aside, I created a Perl program that simply printed "Hello, world!" and ran it through both pp and perl2exe. The pp executable was 6 MB and the perl2exe executable was 2 MB. I realize disk space is cheap these days, but extrapolated out for many programs much larger than 1 print statement, the space savings become significant. Yet one more reason to prefer perl2exe.
"It's not how hard you work, it's how much you get done."
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What did you try with pp_autolink? Installation is via the standard process using tools like cpan or cpanm. The pp_autolink script will be installed in one of the bin dirs on your path. For a strawberry perl installed under C:\Strawberry it will be under C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin. It can also be found using where pp_autolink at the cmd prompt.
In regards to the file sizes, extrapolation from a single data point is prone to a high degree of uncertainty.
A better test would be to pack three or more executables, each with increasing complexity and dependencies. I suspect you will the difference is fixed at 4MB, as opposed to a three to one ratio.
There is also the -z flag with pp to increase the compression level. The default is 6, and setting it to 9 will maximise the compression level and produce smaller files (see https://metacpan.org/pod/pp#-z,-compress=NUMBER). It makes almost no difference with a simple print 'hello' script, but will help with more complex set ups.
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pp_autolink -o=pai.exe p.pl
# Use of runtime loader module Module::Implementation detected. Resul
+ts of static scanning may be incomplete.
# Use of runtime loader module Module::Runtime detected. Results of s
+tatic scanning may be incomplete.
DLL check iter: 1
DLL check iter: 2
DLL check iter: 3
DLL check iter: 4
Unable to locate these DLLS, packed script might not work: oci.dll
No alien system dlls detected
Detected aliens:
# Use of runtime loader module Module::Implementation detected. Resul
+ts of static scanning may be incomplete.
# Use of runtime loader module Module::Runtime detected. Results of s
+tatic scanning may be incomplete.
"It's not how hard you work, it's how much you get done."
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