strawberryperl on windows, running extracted par package from command line

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

Hello everyone! i am having some trouble with PAR::Packer

I made a PAR executable package from a script and it runs fine. When I run it, it extracts to a temporary folder and executes from there.

I want to take the already extracted contents and launch that in some way from command line. I assume after extraction there is some exe launched with some arguments, but this isnt documented anywhere that i read, or is more advanced than i can understand

in the extracted temp file the only executable seems to be a modified copy of par.exe I found in the PAR module in my strawberryperl distribution (same 57344 bytes, 97 bytes are different).

when i run it i get

Can't locate Win32.pm in @INC (@INC contains: .) at -e line 779.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 965.
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I think there's something to do with @INC wich now i believe is something like include. Tried to manually set perl5lib env var and PAR variables in windows still no luck

Its like blackmagic , i have read everything i could find on PAR but it didnt solve my problem. Today i tried process explorer on it and it shows that the packed exe is running the small exe 37k from temp file, but no command line arguments. so it must be a temp file or env variable somewhere.

i posted this on another site but didnt get an answer, thats why im posting here too

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Re: strawberryperl on windows, running extracted par package from command line by kcott (Archbishop) on Apr 03, 2014 at 17:53 UTC
G'day zpimp, Welcome to the monastery. It sounds like you may be using par when you probably should be using pp. Please show the full commands you're using to both create and run the executable. [Here's two additional links (in case you haven't seen them): PAR & PAR::Packer.] -- Ken	[reply]
Re: strawberryperl on windows, running extracted par package from command line by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Apr 03, 2014 at 17:30 UTC
You may well have tried setting the 'perl5lib' env variable, but have you tried setting PERL5LIB instead ?? A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))	[reply]
Re^2: strawberryperl on windows, running extracted par package from command line by Anonymous Monk on Apr 04, 2014 at 00:07 UTC
env vars are case insensitive on windows	[reply]
Re: strawberryperl on windows, running extracted par package from command line by Anonymous Monk on Apr 03, 2014 at 23:15 UTC
I want to take the already extracted contents and launch that in some way from command line. No you don't :) trust me you don't ... Its like blackmagic ... Not really, its actually very well documented ... Re: pp with gui but thats irrelevant, you do not want to do this, believe me If you don't like how pp works, try http://www.cavapackager.com/appdocs/overview-quickstart.htm	[reply]

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