Hello folks,

I'm a newbie. So please bear with me.

For learning purposes though, on MS-Windows I have a tiny Perl/Tk GUI application (which basically is: given a directory it simply lists out the names of the files in that directory) which I start it from the command line i.e. 

     c:\>perl .\gui_simple_app.pl

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However, going forward (again, for learning purposes)I would like to start it from the desktop. i.e. double-clicking on an icon on the desktop should start the application. So I'm interested to know,

1. How to create a simple icon (or a bitmap if that works)
2. A one-time small installation script in perl which when executed will install this icon on the desktop.
3. Double clicking on this icon on the desktop should automatically execute the command: perl <appdir>\gui_simple_app.pl thereby launch the app.

I searched for prior posts as well as Tutorials section to see if this has already been asked. But couldn't find one. Hence any information on this would be helpful.

Many Thanks,

In reply to A Perl/Tk GUI launching question by Anonymous Monk

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