making exe of a perl script

[king]

Hi,
I have written a perl script and i want this script to be used by
others.
But they will have to install active perl to make that work.
and of course if i have used any modules in that script then they have
to install that module as well.

Can any-body suggest anything so that it will be easy for every-one to
use without installing anything.

that is i want to make my script a stand alone application that too
without using PDK.

Can it be done without using PDK.

regards

 

[A. Sinan Unur]

perl2exe: http://www.indigostar.com/perl2exe.htm

PAR is much recommended by others (I have not used it):

http://search.cpan.org/~smueller/PAR-0.941/script/pp

Sinan
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[Arvin Portlock]

Hi,
I have written a perl script and i want this script to be used by
others.
But they will have to install active perl to make that work.
and of course if i have used any modules in that script then they have
to install that module as well.

I do this ALL the time. perl2exe can be tricky to make work.
There may be hidden runtime dependencies that are VERY hard to
find. Consider this little gem from Net::SSH:erl:

sub protocol_class {
join '::', __PACKAGE__,
($_[1] == PROTOCOL_SSH2 ? "SSH2" : "SSH1");
}
.... elsewhere in code:
(my $lib = $proto_class . ".pm") =~ s!::!/!g;
require $lib;

Unless you explicitely tell perl2exe about this, it will
barf. But if you can get it to work, perl2exe is a great
choice.

PAR is much easier to get working but the file size is a
lot larger than a perl2exe distribution and takes longer
to start up. I've also noticed it doesn't always do a good
job of cleaning up after itself. But it pretty much always
works and the learning curve is considerably easier than
perl2exe. Plus, it's free!

Personally I bundle up a small miniperl distribution using
Inno Setup. It includes only the perl parts needed for the
program and I can often fit the whole thing on a floppy. But
be careful which perl you distribute this way as most have
licensing restrictions which prevent you from distributing
modified versions. I use the Apache win32 perl distribution.

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/perl/win32-bin

Or you can compile your own. You cannot distribute
ActiveState perl outside of your organization without
a license.

If you need more help let me know. Like I said, I do
this all the time.

Arvin