in reply to Is it possible to compile a Perl program into a .exe?

As far as I'm aware, no such luck in that department. Though I'd like to see the perl codebase move towards such a feature, mainly because of the fact you state, especially with small installs of Linux which don't have a lot of room to handle a full install of Perl. I haven't really looked into it, though I'm gonna go search now to see if 6.0 has any plans to do this.