Windows 8 64-bit. Activestate Perl 5.16.3. Perl2exe 16.00. My user is an admin for Windows.

My Perl program works fine when interpreted with Perl. I can make an EXE file with Perl2EXE. But when I try to run the program, it just locks up the cmd window. There are no error messages, the cmd windows just locks up and the program produces no output. When I run my compiled/bundled program with no args, it's supposed to print some instructions but I get nothing.

I tried perl2exe with both of these options:

  1. perl2exe script.pl -platform=Win32-5.16.3
  2. perl2exe script.pl -platform-Win64-5.16.3
  3. I have the same problem when I try to compile and run the Perl2exe sample.pl program.

Any idea how to fix this? Also, pp won't install with cpan. I get an error with dmake. EDIT: Dmake failed because the install script couldn't find windres and has this error: 'windres' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. I'll look into finding windres.exe and make sure that dir is on my path when I get home. But for this question let's focus on the EXE produced by perl2exe not working at all.

Thank you.

In reply to Program made with perl2exe locks up by bulrush

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