Where does pp (PAR) unpack add (-a) files?

Question

This is my attempt to cut through extraneous issues raised \"Why don’t my system calls work in the Perl program I wrap with pp?\" I have created a simple Perl script on a l

Answer 1

Here is something that worked on my system:

C:\tmp> cat build.bat
@echo off
mkdir output
call pp -o runner.exe runner.pl -a sayhello.bat
move runner.exe output\runner.exe

C:\tmp> cat sayhello.bat
@echo I am saying hello ...

C:\tmp> cat runner.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use File::Spec::Functions qw( catfile );

my $prog_path = catfile $ENV{PAR_TEMP}, inc => 'sayhello.bat';

my $output = `$prog_path`;

print "The output was: >>> $output <<< ";

__END__

Output:

C:\tmp\output> runner.exe
The output was: >>> I am saying hello ...
<<<

This feels a little dirty, though.