You might find this talk from last year's YAPC to be interesting. The idea is to use Perl for what it's good at (everything but the GUI). Then build the graphical part in some other language. There's also a lot about PAR which helps you package and distribute your Perl application on Windows.
http://www.media-landscape.com/yapc/2006-06-27.ChrisDolan/ On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 21:01 -0500, Matt Sickler wrote: > okay, heres the story > I am developing a messenger app for my school (win32), currently I am using > POE + Tk > Then I wanted a GUI GUI-maker. someone pointed me to Glade (which is Gtk, > Glib, etc) > > > i found http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net which installed glib, glade, gtk, > etc or whatever, and now I am trying to install the necessary Perl modules > > just wondering if anyone has any pointers or if you want me to paste the > specific CPAN.pm log I can
