Re: Perl2exe aggrivations

<rant target='perl2exe authors' strength='100%'> I absolutely hate perl2exe. It seems good but never works as you expect and is an absolute pain to use. Someone please make a decent version. </rant>

I can't see why you had such a problem with the installer for ActivePerl, it worked fine for me. I recommend re-reading the documentation. Don't bother writing to ActiveState, it'll be a month (literally) before they reply. As far as I know, you need Perl installed on your machine for Perl2Exe to work!

ActiveState have a prog called 'PerlApp' which lets you compile -- but it is not free (thought: can they do that under the GPL?).

Perl does need a compiler, IMHO. As for the Perl to C compiler, I really think it is a disaster. It produced code that caused compiler errors!

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RE: Re: Perl2exe aggrivations by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 13, 2000 at 01:27 UTC
Luckily, stuff for or written with Perl is free from the virus that is the GPL - most stuff uses the Artistic license or "the same terms as Perl", which is either Artistic or GPL, whatever (the user) you want. Without going into the various definitions of "freedom", I guess that ActiveState must make money somewhere, and while employing one of the best Perl developers surely gives them a boost in the consulting business, I don't see why they should reap some money from those who need Perl running on a machine but are to cheap to move a full Perl installation over there `;)`.	[reply]
Re^2: Perl2exe aggrivations by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Aug 08, 2021 at 18:02 UTC
«…Don't bother writing to ActiveState…» Probably this has something to do with Plans & Pricing. «The Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostrophe»	[reply]