bart,
As I have
explained, I already figured out how to get the application to start as a service using SrvAny despite the problems with Vista that no resource in this thread so far has addressed (which is why I added the response). Unfortunately, it still
doesn't work.
In a nutshell, there appear to be 3 options:
- Microsoft's SrvAny (free but broken)
- ActiveState's PerlSvc (expensive and uknown if it works with 5.10 and Vista)
- Roth's Win32::Daemon (free but with drawbacks)
Those drawbacks being that it is in beta for 5.10 (converted to XS). I don't know for sure that it will work on Vista and it doesn't seem straight forward to convert an existing application.
The last drawback is really a personal one. I am sure it wouldn't take me "too long" to shoe horn it in but I would really like a turn key solution.