Re: Creating desktop icon

ActivePerl should make all .pl files clickable on win32, so you could just put a .pl file on your desktop or make a "shortcut" to one.

As for running "in the background", what do you mean?

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

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Re^2: Creating desktop icon by kamesh3183 (Beadle) on Oct 14, 2004 at 09:46 UTC
Does it mean that i need to have Activeperl installed on the machine on which i want to execute this script. Actually i want to execute this script on the windows machine which doesn't has any perl interpreter.That means i need to create a exe file or like that.. thanx kamesh	[reply]
Re^3: Creating desktop icon by Joost (Canon) on Oct 14, 2004 at 09:52 UTC
You can use PAR to wrap a perl application in a stand-alone executable. Also, ActiveState has a a program called PerlApp that does something similar. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re^4: Creating desktop icon by ishnid (Monk) on Oct 14, 2004 at 13:32 UTC
It's also worth mentioning that PAR's pp has an --icon option to pack an icon into the executable for Win32 systems.	[reply]
Re^3: Creating desktop icon by si_lence (Deacon) on Oct 14, 2004 at 09:52 UTC
Yes this is correct Either you need Perl installed or you need to build an executable as suggested by Corion si_lence	[reply]