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Igor Peshansky schrieb:
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Richard Foulk wrote:
>> Looking for a simple way to popup a message box on Windows via
>> a Perl script on a system with Cygwin.
>>
>> Looking for portability, light weight, foolproof.  The `net send'
>> option doesn't seem very reliable or portable.

Hmm, I would also prefer Win32::GUI over Win32::API
or more bloated packages.

> Theoretically, it should be as simple as
> 
> 	use Win32::GUI qw(MessageBox);
> 	MessageBox(0, "message", "title", 64);
> 
> However, the Win32::GUI module fails to load for me at the moment,
> claiming the DLL is not found.  I have no time to investigate and create a
> proper bug report, but if it works for you -- great.

Uh? Need not be very proper.
Which dll? Which versions (perl and win32-gui)?

> If you want portability, however, your best bet is to rely on something
> that will be found on every system (which libwin32 isn't).

Compile it to an exe via par. This is completely independent then.
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