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When a TclApp application is created, it creates a virtual filesystem using the Tcl vfs module and puts what it needs in that virtual filesystem. While your application can see inside the VFS, the operating system can't -- hence the error.

The best solution is to extract the executable to a location in the regular filesystem and run it from there. The operating system will be able to see it, and it will work as expected.

When PerlApp compiles your code, it strips out all pod from script or module files. If you need to use pod2text, you can work around this by:

• including the pod data in a separate .pod file
• including this .pod file in your build using the --bind option.

Here's how you create perl scripts that will work both as a script and an executable (working with bound files):

  # this is the file we want to access in our code
  my $file = "/path/to/this.file";

  # test if we are running as a script or executable
  $file = PerlApp::extract_bound_file($file) if defined $PerlApp::VERSION;

You would then build the PerlApp executable using the --bind option:

  perlapp myscript.pl --bind this.file[file=/path/to/this.file]

See also:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/PDK/6.0/PerlApp.html#perlapp_options

PerlApp does provide some level of code obfuscation. Decompiling executables is not trivial, but it is possible.

Critical copyrighted data and algorithms should not be included in Perl code within a PerlApp. If you are concerned about keeping important parts of your code secret, you may want to consider some workarounds such as:

• using strong encryption for critical data
• implementing critical algorithms as XS modules that can be used by your Perl code.

If you recieve an error that looks like the following:

"Perl lib version (v5.8.3) doesn't match executable version (v5.8.4) at
/PerlApp/Config.pm line 32.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at perlapp.pl line 859."

It's possible that you've installed a recent version of the PDK without first uninstalling the older version. This is not recommended.

To correct the problem:

• Uninstall all versions of the PDK
• Ensure the PDK installation directory has been removed. If necessary, delete it manually
• reinstall the latest version of the PDK

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