Whatever you do, PLEASE OH PLEASE DO NOT say you want to do this for code hiding or security. Trust me. That isn't the perl way, and you'll be assaulted by "him". PAR, as said, is one choice; you can also look at ActiveState's Perl Dev Kit. But anyway, do use the Super Search to read all of the previous comments about the subject.
mhoward - at - hattmoward.org
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Use PAR. Also Super Search on this, there's a lot on this. You just asked a Highly Redundant Question.
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The short answer is no. PAR requires that you have perl installed. It unzips your .par and then
perl runs it, BIG WHOOP! There is something called perl2exe but it is junk IMHO. | [reply] |
I use perl2exe for commercial-grade deliverables. It has yet to disappoint me. (But repeating my advocacy of it here is beginning grow tedious. See diatoalevi's response above.)
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Blimey! Poor old ozzie. His node already has -8 XP. Sure, it's been asked before, but so have most SOPW questions, and they don't get downvoted that badly. It's a fairly innocuous question isn't it? hattmoward mentions the ancient hiding-your-code argument, but there are plenty of other legitimate reasons for using PAR. | [reply] |