in reply to ActivePerl - perl.exe works, wperl.exe does not...

Add this at the top of your program 

BEGIN {
    use Win32 qw(SW_HIDE);
    Win32::SetChildShowWindow(SW_HIDE);
    my $perl = $^X;
    if( $perl =~ s/wperl.exe/perl.exe/i ){
        system(1, $perl, $0, @ARGV );
        exit;
    }
}

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Re^2: ActivePerl - perl.exe works, wperl.exe does not...
by spstansbury (Monk) on Jan 26, 2012 at 18:52 UTC

    This works...

    Given that I can run perl.exe with no child window, I can scrap wperl.exe... ;)

    Clearly there's some other difference between the two binaries - I have other wperl scripts that run fine, it was just theNet::SFTP::Foreign line:

    my $sftp = Net::SFTP::Foreign->new( $host, user => $user, password => $password, ssh_cmd => 'plink' );

    that wperl choked on that perl.exe handled without a problem...

    Thanks much for your help! Scott...

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      The difference is STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR/

      wperl.exe, being a windows GUI application, doesn't have these

      perl.exe, being a windows console (cmd.exe) application, does have these, but it also has a console window

      So you start wperl because it has no console window, make sure the children get hidden, then launch a hidden perl.exe , because it has a console and STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR

      Apparently Net::SFTP ... needs a STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR for pipes and such

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        Lovely, thank You..:-)
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