I'm trying to produce an exe version of a script I've written and have run into trouble with the IPC::Run module. Both PAR::Packer and Perl2Exe produce errors with the code below: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
#perl2exe_include "attributes.pm";


use strict;
use warnings;
$|=1;

use Symbol qw( gensym );
use IPC::Run qw( start );
use Tie::Handle;
use IPC::Run::Win32IO;

my %sp;
$sp{'STDIN'} = gensym();
$sp{'STDOUT'} = gensym();
$sp{'STDERR'} = gensym();
    my $h = start
            ['./cnc.exe'],
            '<pipe', $sp{'STDIN'},
            '>pipe', $sp{'STDOUT'},
            '2>pipe', $sp{'STDERR'}
        or die "returned $?";

sleep 20;

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PAR::Packer generates the following when I attempt to run the resulting .exe: 
Inappropriate I/O control operation: Win32::Process::Create() at C:\Us
+ers\Izomiac\AppData\Local\Temp\par-4a6f7368\cache-6146a0a42031e00189f
+f49a355f90de7875866db\inc\lib/IPC/Run.pm line 2143.
Inappropriate I/O control operation: Win32::Process::Create() at C:\Us
+ers\Izomiac\AppData\Local\Temp\par-4a6f7368\cache-6146a0a42031e00189f
+f49a355f90de7875866db\inc\lib/IPC/Run.pm line 2244.
Inappropriate I/O control operation: Win32::Process::Create() at C:\Us
+ers\Izomiac\AppData\Local\Temp\par-4a6f7368\cache-6146a0a42031e00189f
+f49a355f90de7875866db\inc\lib/IPC/Run.pm line 2244.

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And Perl2Exe runs the .exe version dozens of times simultaneously.

For context, this script launches a half-dozen other scripts and coordinates communication between them by piping things through STDIN/STDOUT. I adopted this approach since one subprocess is a Tk GUI, another loads gigabytes of data into memory, and another is a 32 thread genetic sorting algorithm, and combining them into one process caused all sorts of instability. This version is faster and much more stable, but it's a big ask to have end-users install perl.

Any suggestions or alternatives?

In reply to PAR-Packer and IPC-Run by izomiac

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