Library issue while using perl2exe - perl

Question

I am trying to convert my Perl script to standalone exe.
I assume perl2exe is a tool that serves this purpose. More or less.
When I am trying to generate the exe file, I am getting library issues.
One of the library issues is:
Warning: Can't locate VMS/Stdio.pm
at C:\Perl\lib\File\Temp.pm line 19
#INC = C:\Perl\site\lib, C:\Perl\lib, ., C:\Perl\lib\Digest, must be directory, not file)
When I went to line 19 of Temp.pm, the line is written as follows:
require VMS::Stdio if $^O eq 'VMS';
But,my OS is MSWin32.
I am coming to a conclusion that, perl2exe is not compiling the script properly. Its reading my OS wrong.
Sample script is as follows:
my_libraries.pl
use Tk;
use lib 'C:\Perl\lib\Digest';
use strict;
use strict;
use warnings;
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::Simple qw(getstore);
use LWP::UserAgent;
use Digest::MD5 qw( md5_hex );
use Digest::MD5::File qw( file_md5_hex );
use File::Fetch;
use WWW::Mechanize ;
use Tk::ErrorDialog;
c:\perl2exe\perl2exe-16.00-Win> perl2exe my_libraries.pl my_libraries.exe
Warning: Can't locate File/BSDGlob.pm
at C:\Perl\lib\File\GlobMapper.pm line 13
#INC = C:\Perl\site\lib, C:\Perl\lib, ., C:\Perl\lib\Digest, must be directory, not file)
Warning: Can't locate Digest/Perl/MD5.pm
at C:\Perl\lib\Digest\MD5.pm line 30
#INC = C:\Perl\site\lib, C:\Perl\lib, ., C:\Perl\lib\Digest, must be directory, not file)
Warning: Can't locate VMS/Stdio.pm
at C:\Perl\lib\File\Temp.pm line 19
#INC = C:\Perl\site\lib, C:\Perl\lib, ., C:\Perl\lib\Digest, must be directory, not file)
Warning: Can't locate VMS/DCLsym.pm
at C:\Perl\lib\IPC\Cmd.pm line 227
#INC = C:\Perl\site\lib, C:\Perl\lib, ., C:\Perl\lib\Digest, must be directory, not file)
Warning: Can't locate VMS/Filespec.pm
at C:\Perl\lib\ExtUtils\Manifest.pm line 31
#INC = C:\Perl\site\lib, C:\Perl\lib, ., C:\Perl\lib\Digest, must be directory, not file)
Warning: Can't locate HTML/FormatText.pm
at C:\Perl\lib\HTML\Element.pm line 1297
#INC = C:\Perl\site\lib, C:\Perl\lib, ., C:\Perl\lib\Digest, must be directory, not file)
Sorry. let me put my obvious question here:
Why is perl2exe giving library issues which are not intended to come? Is it a bug in perl2exe or am I doing something wrong?
I mean, you can see in line 19 that if the OS is 'VMS', then stdio.pm is required. My os is 'MSWin32'.

Answer 1

I tried a to z possible remediation to make the perl2exe work. I removed the sections that was producing warnings (Hacked the modules). Studied and tried various flags. I have to say it is not at all feasible to convert Perl programs using diverse modules to exe files using perl2exe.
I found a software that exactly did what I wanted- Cava Packager.
It took sometime to find the below page-
How can I package my Perl script to run on a machine without Perl?
It converted my Perl program to Exe and also generated an installation file. Awesome.
Thanks,
Anoop.

Answer 2

The problem is
C:\Perl\lib\File\Temp.pm line 19
Open the file you will see this
require VMS::Stdio if $^O eq 'VMS';
Change the file not read-only, then place # for this line, go back to perl2exe the file again, then it should be gone.

Answer 3

It may be of interest to readers of this issue that in addition to the VMS/Stdio.pm error, I also received "Can't locate the.pm". The line in my perl code that it pointed to was the text "Use the 't' command..." that was inside a double-quoted print statement. Apparently perl2exe looked for the 'use' statement regardless of where in my code it appeared. The fix was to either re-word the text to remove the word 'use' or put the text in single quotes.