in reply to perl2exe and spaces in paths

To answer your second question, perl2exe has a -gui option that causes your compiled .exe not to create a console when it runs. Note that I found this in the perl2exe manual.

For the first one, I'm not entirely sure, but my first guess is that it's a code issue. If you could post the source code for a small program that demonstrates this issue and the exact error message that would be helpful.