*.exe from pp on Win7 fails

aplonis has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

So I have a script (nothing fancy, no GUI, just a file-parser) that runs fine under Strawberry Perl in it's pure *.pl form. I use...

pp -o foo.exe foo.pl

...to make an *.exe, and it does that with no complaint. But if I click on the *.exe, then a DOS window pops up (as expected) but shows no text to indicate progress, but simply blinks into non-existence after a second or two.

How do I troubleshoot something like that? Using the verbose tag on pp was not informative so far as I could e..

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Re: *.exe from pp on Win7 fails ( ppsimple.pl ) by Anonymous Monk on Jun 07, 2017 at 23:36 UTC
Give ppsimple.pl a try, if it doesn't work post the last part of the log which is the call to pp/invocation of pp, and the output of pp	[reply]
Re^2: *.exe from pp on Win7 fails ( ppsimple.pl ) by aplonis (Pilgrim) on Jun 08, 2017 at 00:17 UTC
Yes, `ppsimple.pl` proved helpful. It revealed my problem to be an absence of the module `Proc::Background` in my system, which apparently `pp` needs but the `.pl` didn't. Indeed, excellent! I had to force-install that one, then install a few others, until ... at last ... `ppsimple.pl` ran out of errors to report and just followed through to make my now-working `.exe` so thanks heaps!	[reply] [d/l] [select]