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Stefan Fischerländer
I'm looking for some experiences or even some guidance ...
There are some freeware tools I provide on my homepage, which are
written in Visual Basic. For a couple of reasons I want to get rid of
VB and want to switch to another language.
Because I'm rather experienced with Perl, this would be an obvious
choice. But there is one problem: the deployment of my Perl apps. My
users are no tech gurus, just average computer users. This means the
programs have to be deployed as self-installing single .exe files. (To
tell them to install ActiveState Perl for Windows distribution is no
option!)
After some googling, I found several tools which together seem to form
a complete development environment to build (simple) Windows
applications:
Perl "Compilers":
http://tinyperl.sourceforge.net/
http://search.cpan.org/author/AUTRIJUS/PAR-0.69/
http://www.indigostar.com/perl2exe.htm
"GUI Builder" for Win32::GUI:
http://www.bahnhof.se/~johanl/perl/Loft/
Installation Program:
http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/
Does anyone here has any experiences with what I intend to do?
Is Perl with any of the perl-to-exe "compilers" a reasonable solution
to create and deploy Windows applications?
Stefan
There are some freeware tools I provide on my homepage, which are
written in Visual Basic. For a couple of reasons I want to get rid of
VB and want to switch to another language.
Because I'm rather experienced with Perl, this would be an obvious
choice. But there is one problem: the deployment of my Perl apps. My
users are no tech gurus, just average computer users. This means the
programs have to be deployed as self-installing single .exe files. (To
tell them to install ActiveState Perl for Windows distribution is no
option!)
After some googling, I found several tools which together seem to form
a complete development environment to build (simple) Windows
applications:
Perl "Compilers":
http://tinyperl.sourceforge.net/
http://search.cpan.org/author/AUTRIJUS/PAR-0.69/
http://www.indigostar.com/perl2exe.htm
"GUI Builder" for Win32::GUI:
http://www.bahnhof.se/~johanl/perl/Loft/
Installation Program:
http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/
Does anyone here has any experiences with what I intend to do?
Is Perl with any of the perl-to-exe "compilers" a reasonable solution
to create and deploy Windows applications?
Stefan