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One year ago I read everything I needed to know about PAR::Packer, if I would have read about the possibility to unzip the executables, I would never have used it. I can remember reading people using it to protect their sources. Well in a way it does, but just a very little. Very strange to create a zip file takes 45 minutes for just a few hundred lines of code......

That being said, it brought me a step closer to what I wanted, and I'm grateful for that. That's life sometimes you take a wrong turn, to find later on you need to go back.

So I will start my search on a real compiling solution, if there is any

Any suggestions for a good wiki on to compile .pl files to .exe, on Windows which are real compilers, not packers

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Re^9: how to create a makefile using PAR::Packer
by marto (Cardinal) on Dec 13, 2012 at 19:08 UTC

    "One year ago I read everything I needed to know about PAR::Packer, if I would have read about the possibility to unzip the executables, I would never have used it."

    Apparently you didn't read everything you needed to know about PAR::Packer.

    "I can remember reading people using it to protect their sources."

    Impossible, they were mistaken and you took their word for it over the clearly documented advice.

    "Any suggestions for a good wiki on to compile .pl files to .exe, on Windows which are real compilers, not packers."

    If you're looking for a reliable, production worthy solution you're out of luck.

    Update: there are several interested threads here on hiding the source, decompiling and reverse engineering, some of which cover Perl as well as other languages. Super Search is your friend.

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      Thanks for the help.

      I have found .....forbidden.... on compiling Perl. From what I read it is not alway 100% working, a shame as it could make Perl more powerful. I tried B::CC and it doesn't accept my Perl version

      I will use super search and hopefully I will find something to hide the source, that will fit into my current workflow.

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        Firstly, that's not how you link to URLs, for example [http://www.google.com|Google]. Secondly that site is an illegal* copy of the old O'Reilly CD Bookshelf. Please remove it. Some of the people here wrote those books, all be it a long time ago. Hint, check the date of your sources, it's not 1998 any more. Your references aren't current.

        There is nothing to hide your source. Again there's much previous discussion on this site, and elsewhere. Consider the alternatives.

        * Yes, I've reporeted this several times over the years, the site in question has dropped off the web at least twice and popped back up again.

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