Re: Build EXE without CPAN access

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Re^2: Build EXE without CPAN access by v4169sgr (Sexton) on May 31, 2016 at 12:10 UTC
Thanks all for the replies so far. The machine I am using is totally locked down. No USB access. No admin access - I have installed Perl to another location to avoid this. No possibility of downloading anything. No "fighting with admin privileges" - this will not even be attempted && whatever works for me will not attempt to bypass protection mechanisms and will work with the system as I find it. I was only able to install ActiveState Perl by jumping through several hoops - Strawberry Perl is a lot simpler in this respect. Thanks for the pointer about ppm.bat - I didn't know about that. I can't made ppm.bat run on my machine, but ppm-shell.bat does do something. Can I use this to make a windows exe? About the only things I can do are: 1. run something that is already included in a Perl distribution like Strawberry Perl; or 2. literally copy paste from source links on CPAN web pages into an editor and write them to my Perl install: no admin privileges required as I have installed elsewhere. Thanks again for the replies - just wondering what is possible.	[reply]
Re^3: Build EXE without CPAN access by Corion (Patriarch) on May 31, 2016 at 12:44 UTC
If you have a browser on the target machine, you can download the modules from CPAN and install the modules through the `cpan` tool from the distribution files directly, most likely with the `cpan` tool but certainly with the `cpanm` tool: `cpanm ~/downloads/MyCompany-Enterprise-1.00.tar.gz # install from a +local file` [download] You can download and install `cpanm` via App::cpanminus.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Build EXE without CPAN access by v4169sgr (Sexton) on May 31, 2016 at 14:26 UTC
Double checked and verified that any form of downloading - even from a browser URL - is interdicted. To be useful, any solution must not rely on downloading from CPAN ...	[reply]
Re^5: Build EXE without CPAN access by stevieb (Canon) on May 31, 2016 at 14:37 UTC
Re^6: Build EXE without CPAN access by v4169sgr (Sexton) on Jun 02, 2016 at 09:34 UTC
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Re^5: Build EXE without CPAN access by Corion (Patriarch) on May 31, 2016 at 14:29 UTC
Re^3: Build EXE without CPAN access by soonix (Chancellor) on Jun 01, 2016 at 06:51 UTC
… I have installed Perl to another location … How did you do this and why can't you apply this to a minicpan? Another possibility might be Perl::Dist, specifically Perl::Dist::Strawberry seems to be actively maintained.	[reply]
Re^4: Build EXE without CPAN access by Anonymous Monk on Jun 01, 2016 at 07:38 UTC
Another possibility might be Perl::Dist, specifically Perl::Dist::Strawberry seems to be actively maintained. thats only if you want to create a .msi, which strawberryperl already provides, anyway since every win32 perl is "portable" just copy/paste "works"	[reply]
Re^3: Build EXE without CPAN access by Anonymous Monk on May 31, 2016 at 12:15 UTC
Is this locked down machine a development system, or the same machine on which the script will later run? If the latter, why do you need to make an EXE at all?	[reply]
Re^4: Build EXE without CPAN access by v4169sgr (Sexton) on May 31, 2016 at 14:22 UTC
All machines here are locked down. I develop the script here on the local machine, then roll an EXE and distribute to my user community, so they don't have to install and use Perl directly ...	[reply]