Anyway try to force pp to include the ...\perl\site\lib\auto\Win32\Daemon\Daemon.dll

That was it. It works now. Is this something I should not have had to do under "normal" circumstances? Is there something that I should look for to determine whether or not to explicitly linking in the daemon.dll?

In any case, what a great piece of advice. I am off to drink some eggnog now. I will lift a chalice to you as thanks for your invaluable help.

Update: A thought occurred to me. My script is writing out a log. I have hard-coded the path to the log in my script before converting it to the exe which I then converted to the service. This path is likely going to be different in the target computer(s). How do I externalize this path to the log file so I can still create the exe and install it as a service on a target computer, yet change the log file path (and, perhaps, other config vars as well) at will... you know, stop the service, change a few config params, restart the service, a la Apache.exe does on Windows?

In reply to Re^2: Perl script to EXE to Windows Service by punkish
in thread Perl script to EXE to Windows Service by punkish

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