I have an external Win32 process which I run to delete quite a number of files that are generated during extracting and the sorting process. I can have the "destroy.pl" in my main code but it makes my code long and hard to read. My problem is when I generate a stand-alone executable using PerlApp, I cannot run it on a machine which does not have perl installed. Not even on a machine where perl is not installed on c: directory.

I tried to create destroy.exe and have it in the same folder as the main program, but that did not work either. Because I don't know how to tell the main program where to find the destroy.exe. Any suggestions. 

my $command = "c:\\perl\\bin\\perl.exe";
my $args = "perl.exe c:\\perl\\destroy.pl";
my $process;
Win32::Process::Create($process,
    $command,
    $args,
    0,
    DETACHED_PROCESS,
    '.') || & error();

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In reply to How to run external win32 process in Perl/Tk by Anonymous Monk

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