Hello wise monks,

I have written several command line perl scripts which I now want to call from a TK GUI. Because it are long jobs and I don't want to have a blocking GUI, I decided the following:

I have a main script which contains the TK GUI. This main script is then calling the other scripts by using inter process communication (fileevent functionality in TK) when the user presses a button. I call these other scripts helper scripts.

Of course I know with the help of you that it would be also possible to do this with threads when I'm very careful. But I think I prefer the way of IPC now. Is this design ok, or is it a bad idea to do it like this? What would be the alternatives?

But now to my main problem. Usually I pack my script with pp into a standalone executable to be able to deploy it. But now I want to pack not only my main script into a standalone executable, but also my helper scripts with all their dependencies.

Here my trials:

  1. pp -o standalone.exe main_script.pl helper_script1.pl

    Problem is here that it is not possible to call "standalone.exe" without an argument because it does not know what is the "main script".

  2. pp -a helper_script1.pl -o standalone.exe main_script.pl

    Problem is here that the dependencies of the "helper_script1.pl" are not packed into the "standalone.exe".

Then I tried it with "-M". This option usually checks the dependencies and adds them, but not if the suffix is ".pl".

What is a good way to solve this problem with pp?

Thank you a lot for your help!

Greetings,

Dirk

UPDATE:

SOLUTION is posted here: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=959677

In reply to pp and multiple perl scripts by Dirk80

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