PAR::Packer / pp question

[svein....@gmail.com]

Hi,

I get a different output on a very simple directory test between
perl native code and same thing packed using PAR::Packer / pp.
pp has been installed successfully.

Have a look at the code and results below -
I'd be very grateful for any advice on how to proceed:

C:\Temp>more test.pl
use strict;
use warnings;

unless (-d $ARGV[0]) {
print "Path is not a directory or does not exist.\n";
}
else {
print "Path is a directory\n";
}

C:\Temp>perl test.pl "c:\Program Files"
Path is a directory

C:\Temp>pp test.pl -o test.exe

C:\Temp>test.exe "c:\Program Files"
Path is not a directory or does not exist.

C:\Temp>perl -Version
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 24 subversion 0) configuration:

Platform:
osname=MSWin32, osvers=6.3, archname=MSWin32-x64-multi-thread
uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.24.0.1 #1 Tue May 10 21:30:49 2016 x64'
config_args='undef'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
use64bitint=define, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='gcc', ccflags =' -s -O2 -DWIN32 -DWIN64 -DCONSERVATIVE -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields',
optimize='-s -O2',
cppflags='-DWIN32'
ccversion='', gccversion='4.9.2', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678, doublekind=3
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16, longdblkind=3
ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='long long', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=8, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='g++', ldflags ='-s -L"C:\STRAWB~1\perl\lib\CORE" -L"C:\STRAWB~1\c\lib"'
libpth=C:\STRAWB~1\c\lib C:\STRAWB~1\c\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib C:\STRAWB~1\c\lib\gcc\x86_64-w64-mingw32\4.9.2
libs=-lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr -lwinmm -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lcomctl32
perllibs=-lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr -lwinmm -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lcomctl32
libc=, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl524.a
gnulibc_version=''
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=xs.dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-mdll -s -L"C:\STRAWB~1\perl\lib\CORE" -L"C:\STRAWB~1\c\lib"'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: HAS_TIMES HAVE_INTERP_INTERN MULTIPLICITY
PERLIO_LAYERS PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE
PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
PERL_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME_HARD
PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV USE_64_BIT_INT
USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_LOCALE
USE_LOCALE_COLLATE USE_LOCALE_CTYPE
USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_LOCALE_TIME USE_PERLIO
USE_PERL_ATOF
Built under MSWin32
Compiled at May 10 2016 21:42:01
@INC:
C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib
C:/Strawberry/perl/vendor/lib
C:/Strawberry/perl/lib
.

C:\Temp>
C:\Temp>cpan PAR::Packer
Loading internal null logger. Install Log::Log4perl for logging messages
CPAN: CPAN::SQLite loaded ok (v0.211)
Database was generated on Thu, 14 Sep 2017 10:10:52 GMT

CPAN: Module::CoreList loaded ok (v5.20160507)
PAR::Packer is up to date (1.037).

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