I'm using Strawberry perl to build a standalone app with Tkx as the front-end.

I'm running the following command on windows pp --gui --icon res\rvbd.ico -o riverbench.exe benchtool.pl

When I was using Tk, everything was fine. With Tkx and the above command, I get the error.

'The program can't start because tcl85.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.'

If I include tcl85.dll, pp -l tcl85.dll --icon res\rvbd.ico -o riverbench.exe benchtool.pl I get the error message 

C:\Users\ashetty\Desktop>riverbench.exe
Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:
    C:/Users/ashetty/AppData/Local/Temp/par-ashetty/lib/tcl8.5 C:/User
+s/ashetty/
AppData/Local/Temp/par-ashetty/lib/tcl8.5 C:/Users/ashetty/AppData/Loc
+al/Temp/li
b/tcl8.5 C:/Users/ashetty/AppData/Local/Temp/par-ashetty/library C:/Us
+ers/ashett
y/AppData/Local/Temp/library C:/Users/ashetty/AppData/Local/Temp/tcl8.
+5.10/libra
ry C:/Users/ashetty/AppData/Local/tcl8.5.10/library

This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Tkx.pm line 225.
Compilation failed in require at script/benchtool.pl line 39.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at script/benchtool.pl line 39.

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I found this link for a fix with ActiveState Perl
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1285087/trying-to-create-a-standalone-app-from-a-perl-script-that-uses-tkx-tcl-tk

However, with Strawberry perl there is no tkkit.dll while there is a tcl.dll

When I use ActiveState perl and compile with pp, everything works fine. However, even after specifying --gui option, the console window stays.

I'd love to hear if anyone has got this working successfully. Thanks

In reply to par::packer with Tkx and Strawberry perl by periferral

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