Win32 perlgui.exe - where did it come from, why doesn't it work?

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Migrated from rt.perl.org#988 (status was 'resolved')

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From Paul.Moore@uk.origin-it.com

In my Win32 Perl build, a file guiperl.exe is installed. I can find no
information about what it is, or how I should use it.

On the expectation that it might be a copy of perl.exe compiled to run
in the
GUI subsystem (ie, without a console), I tried running it. I get a
message
box, telling me

  Runtime error!
  Program​: C​:\Applications\Perl\Bin\MSWin32-x86\guiperl.exe
  abnormal program termination

Presumably, something is wrong, but as I can't find where the executable
was
generated from (there's no mention of guiperl.exe in the Win32
Makefile), I'm
unsure how to attempt a fix...

On the other hand, copying perl.exe to perlw.exe and then doing
  editbin /subsystem​:windows perlw.exe
does seem to give a perfectly good non-console Perl, so maybe
guiperl.exe is
not what I thiunk it is...

Perl Info

Site configuration information for perl 5.00503:

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 03) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86
    uname=''
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cl.exe', optimize='-O2 -MD -DNDEBUG', gccversion=
    cppflags='-DWIN32'
    ccflags ='-O2 -MD -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT
-DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT '
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=10
    alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -release -machine:x86'
    libpth=E:\VisualStudio\VC98\lib
    libs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib  winspool.lib
comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib  oleaut32.lib
netapi32.lib uuid.lib wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib  version.lib
odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib PerlCRT.lib
    libc=PerlCRT.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=yes, libperl=perl.lib
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -release
-machine:x86'

Locally applied patches:
    


@INC for perl 5.00503:
    C:\Applications\Perl\lib/MSWin32-x86
    C:\Applications\Perl\lib
    C:\Applications\Perl\site\lib/MSWin32-x86
    C:\Applications\Perl\site\lib
    .


Environment for perl 5.00503:
    HOME (unset)
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\UTILS;C:\Applications\Perl\Bin;C:
\Applications\Perl\Bin\MSWin32-x86;C:\VisualStudio\Common\Tools\WinNT;C:
\VisualStudio\Common\MSDev98\Bin;C:\VisualStudio\Common\Tools;C:\VisualS
tudio\VC98\bin;C:\Program
Files\Mts;C:\MSSQL7\BINN;C:\orant\bin;C:\DMINT40\Win32\Bin;C:\Program
Files\CWNT;C:\NTRESKIT
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL (unset)