exe for perl

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Can I create an exe file, where it could run my script the same way if I(WinXP) type c:/perl script.pl.

I want people to just click on icon.exe an run my script.

I tried using PAR but it wouldn't work.

So could I use a notepad and create an exe file that will run my interpreter on that script??? TQ

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Re: exe for perl by ccn (Vicar) on Aug 03, 2004 at 19:15 UTC
You can easily create *.bat file from your perl script using pl2bat which shipped with ActiveState perl	[reply]
Re: exe for perl by gri6507 (Deacon) on Aug 03, 2004 at 19:16 UTC
You should be able to create a batch file "foo.bat" which would contain `c:\perl\bin\perl.exe c:\my\path\myscript.pl` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: exe for perl by waswas-fng (Curate) on Aug 04, 2004 at 01:50 UTC
What happened when you tried to PAR (pp) it? -Waswas	[reply]
Re: exe for perl by gawatkins (Monsignor) on Aug 04, 2004 at 03:07 UTC
As long as your extensions (.pl) are set to open with the perl executable, you can run a .pl file by clicking on it or a shortcut to it. If this is not set correctly, you can right click on a .pl file, select "Open With", then "Choose Program" to find the Perl executable. Thanks, GW	[reply]
Re^2: exe for perl by inman (Curate) on Aug 04, 2004 at 08:25 UTC
and if you append .pl to the PATHEXT environment variable then you don't need to type the .pl extension. `PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.pl;`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: exe for perl by davidj (Priest) on Aug 03, 2004 at 19:16 UTC
You might want to take a look at perl2exe. davidj	[reply]