Create exe with custom icon using Perl Par Packer

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I am trying to create a exe file from Perl script with custom icon .i have tried with these commands ``` pp -i "myicon.ico" -o file.exe file.pl pp --icon "myicon.ico" -o file.exe file.pl pp --icon "fullpath\myicon.ico" -o file.exe file.pl ``` but couldnt solve the issue.any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.Thanks. Update : for this code `pp --gui --icon myicon.ico -o out.exe file.pl` . I have got an error as ``` Unknown option: icon Binary 'myicon.ico' sure doesn't smell like perl source! Can't locate method "maybe_command" via package "MM" ```

Accepted Answer

The options `--icon` and `--info` have been removed from the latest versions of PAR::Packer. According to comments from the module's author on the CPAN bug tracker, the options sometimes corrupt files, and since they delegated to Win32::Exe anyway he now expects people to just use Win32::Exe directly.1

Here's a handy one-liner to remove the default camel icon and add your own from a .ico file. As noted by Hariboo, your icon file must match the attributes of the original camel icon, i.e. 32x32 pixels.

```
perl -e "use Win32::Exe; $exe = Win32::Exe->new('myapp.exe'); $exe->set_single_group_icon('myicon.ico'); $exe->write;"
```

See the perldoc for Win32::Exe for other icon-related API calls. There is a script `exe_update.bat` that ships with Win32::Exe, but some users have reported corruption issues (e.g. in this other question).

If you're still getting corrupted EXEs, try downgrading your Archive::Zip, and then rebuilding PAR.

```
force install NEDKONZ/Archive-Zip-1.08.tar.gz
force install PAR 
```

I have a separate, install of portable Strawberry just for packing and modifying EXEs with PAR::Packer. Be sure to pass `-X Portable.pm` to `pp` when using portable.2

Create exe with custom icon using Perl Par Packer

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