I have a script that runs as a Windows Service using the Win32::Daemon module.

It works absolutely fine when it is just running on it's own. However, now I want to call a subroutine in a custom module I wrote. Let's call this module MyParser.pm

The file is located in the same folder as MyService.pl

When I add the the following line use MyParser; the service fails to startup anymore. I can get around that using use lib "$RealDir/";, though I don't understand why I have to.

But the service still automatically stops when I add MyParser->parse($myinput) into the SERVICE_RUNNING code block.

Any suggestions on what my problem could be?

In reply to Problems with using Modules in script by rishi

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