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What, are you kidding? PerlApp works great!

The cost: large .exe files. But disk space is cheap, so...

The benefit: No installation problems whatsoever. Unzip your files, run the program. You're done.

Without this, you definitely need to provide an installation program if your target audience even slightly resembles "normal" users.

/J

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by ichimunki (Priest) on Oct 05, 2001 at 02:54 UTC
    I stand corrected then, but this is the first I'm hearing where compiling (assuming this isn't mostly some pseudocompile process that results in an .exe) a Perl application on any platform (other than using perl itself) is a reliable process. What's the catch? And how big is a "large" .exe? 500K, 2mb, or 25mb? I see that it requires a Win2k machine to run, and that it requires a license-- and non-educational licenses look to be somewhat pricy (I am not exactly impoverished, but that DevKit costs more than my VCR did). But still, I can now say I've heard differently.
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      perl2exe (or at least the evaluation version) works too. I compiled an application that used WxWindows, and the .exe file was 2-3 megs (plus the seperate WxWindows dll, also 2-3 megs). I had to add a special line in order to be able to "use constant", but other than that there have been no problems.
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      A completely self contained PerlApp application starts at around 2mb. You can break out the perl5.dll file if you want to share it across many programs.

      On the one hand, disk space is cheap, on the other bandwidth isn't always that, so this may or may not be a problem.

      The key here isn't performance but ease-of-use for the end user when it comes to installing your program.

      /J

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