From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 47191 invoked by alias); 10 Jun 2019 20:13:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 47050 invoked by uid 89); 10 Jun 2019 20:13:00 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=launch, pops, HX-Languages-Length:782, window X-HELO: www16.qth.com Received: from www16.qth.com (HELO www16.qth.com) (69.16.238.67) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:12:59 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (port=43273 helo=www16.qth.com) by www16.qth.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1haQf3-004VCa-9x for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:12:57 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:13:00 -0000 From: Chris Wagner To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Windowless Perl In-Reply-To: <87a7epgs5t.fsf@Rainer.invalid> References: <5eebff75b1f37a968325ed4fc7dce3a8@plebeian.com> <87a7epgs5t.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Message-ID: <3a0322aa51937847ea35009b77c1aa34@plebeian.com> X-Sender: wagnerc@plebeian.com User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.3.8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-06/txt/msg00118.txt.bz2 On 2019-06-10 3:24 pm, Achim Gratz wrote: > Chris Wagner writes: >> Perl maintainers, I was wondering why the Cygwin Perl distribution >> does not contain a windowless Perl executable, wperl.exe. > > Because nobody needs it? > >> Directly executing the standard perl.exe from Windows causes a command >> console to pop up. I've had it before in other distros but it would >> be super handy to execute completely headless Perl scripts with Cygwin >> access. > > That's what "run" is for, actually. Well I would have a good use for it. I didn't know about run, thanks for the tip. However when I use it to launch something from the Start Menu Run command, it still pops open a terminal window of some kind for a fraction of a second. I'm on Windows 7. Thanks. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple