Hello, everybody.
I decided to try the Active State Perl DevKit, so I have downloaded the Evaluation version. I make EXEs from scripts with PerlApp, and all seems to work. But there is something strange with scripts that use Tk. Here is a code sample: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Tk;

$wind = MainWindow->new();
$wind->Label(
        -text => 'Some text'
        )->pack();
$wind->Button(
        -text => "Click!",
        -command => \&display
        )->pack(-side => 'left');
$text = $wind->Text(-width => 40,
                    -height => 4)->pack();
$text->bind('<Double-1>', \&display);

sub display {
    $text->insert('end', "Hello, Tk!");
}
MainLoop;

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I try to generate a freestanding EXE and not include Perl56.dll into executable, so I run PerlApp with the following options:

perlapp tk_test.pl -f -x -g

The puzzle for me is, that when I run the resulting EXE on a PC with no Perl installed (but, of course, where Perl56.dll exists in this EXE directory), the system tries to do it, but the window does not appear on screen and no error message is generated.

Moreover, when I do not use the -x option and get an enormous EXE, the situation is the same, with the only difference, that on the machine where Perl is installed I cannot run the EXE either!

Can anyone give me a hint? I will appreciate any advice.

Pavel

In reply to GUI (Tk) executables via PerlApp by Pavel

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