I have successfully produced .exe files with pp (Tk included):

• I used the "portable" version of Strawberry
• installed Tk from CPAN
• installed PAR::Packer from CPAN (which contains pp)
• for changing the application Icon (for double-clicking), I installed Win32::Exe from CPAN
• for the title bar logo, I grabbed and adapted Tk::ToplevelIcon from Re: Perl TK changing the logo
• then created the .exe like this:

  cmd /c pp -v -g -o xxxxx.exe xxxxx.pl
  perl -e "use Win32::Exe; $exe = Win32::Exe->new('xxxxx.exe'); $exe->se
  +t_single_group_icon('xxxxx.ico'); $exe->write;"
  [download]

The resulting .exe takes relatively long to startup because pp essentially makes a copy of perl's runtime system which has to be unpacked more or less on every run.

As I'm the Admin anyway, I found it better to copy the perl folder and the folder containing script + additional needed files to the target and create a .lnk with target "{perl folder}\perl\bin\wperl.exe" xxxxx.pl {additional parameters}, and execute in the folder that contains the script.

P.S. the "cmd /c" is there because actually, I put it into a .cmd batch, and pp is also a .cmd a .bat file. Now that I think of it, I should have made a perl script and calling pp from there…

Update: Still not optimal (argument setting for pp, error checking), but here you go:

use 5.011;    # implies strict + feature 'say'
use warnings;
use pp;
use Win32::Exe;

my $name = shift;
my ( $script, $exefile, $icon ) = map { "$name.$_" } qw(pl exe ico);
say "creating $exefile from $script";
@ARGV = qw(-g -o);
push @ARGV, $exefile, $script;
pp->go();
say "setting icon from $icon";
my $exe = Win32::Exe->new($exefile);
$exe->set_single_group_icon($icon);
$exe->write;
[download]

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