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in reply to perlApp --gui and chdir

Sounds like it maybe a perlApp issue. If so, you might find more help at ActiveState's user forums.

Doing a quick search of their forums for "perlapp -gui", I found this which might have the solution to your problem.

http://community.activestate.com/forum-topic/curdir-or-cwd-in-perlapp

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Re^2: perlApp --gui and chdir
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 01, 2012 at 20:43 UTC
    i am trying to get a logfile to write in a specific location no matter where i run the compiled .exe from so if i do

    my $file = pathtofile;

    When I open a output file handler on the output file i want the data to be written to the path but everytime no matter what i try this is not the case it will write the log file to where ever i run the .exe from

    Thanks for the response
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      If you're using an absolute path, what has chdir got to do with it?

      I'll bet you're not doing any error checking either, open can fail you know

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        all works fine as a .pl so error checking has nothing to do with this
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