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ZlR has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

The FAQ of PAR FAQ states:
There is a switch that only works on windows, --icon MyIcon.ico. So just use this:
% pp --icon "c:\path to\MyIcon.ico" -o file.exe file.pl
And the PAR::Packer FAQ states:
Unlike Perl2EXE, which can use a standard 16-color bitmap as an application icon, PAR requires a true Windows icon file. Download a trial version of Microangelo and use that to create your .ico file. The latest Netpbm tools at http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/ has ppmtowinicon, which can take a pbm and convert it to a windows icon. It is open source and has win32 ports. Gimp for Windows can also create Windows icon files http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/.
But what is the exact .ico format needed to make it work ?

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