I have several perl programs:

mainApp.pl
subApp1.pl
subApp2.pl

they are all in one directory, say, /path/abc/bin/

One of them is the main application program: mainApp.pl, and all the others are called by the main script,but they are not libraries (in the format of functions), they are independent script and can be run individually as well. They are called in this way:

...
$command = "subApp1.pl -f $config_file";
$status = system( $command);
...

In Unix, I made all the scripts into executable, and add the path to the directory to PATH enviornment variable,then I can run the mainApp.pl from anywhere on the machine. IT works.

Then I tested it on windows, I also added the directory where all the scripts stays to the PATH enviornment variable, and run the mainApp.pl from an arbitrary directory. But as I run mainApp.pl to the point where subApp.pl is called, it said:

Can't open perl script "subApp1.pl": No such file or directory.

I don't want to hardcode the absolute path to my code. What can I do?

Thanks ahead.

In reply to Path to a perl executable file on windows by sachaer

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