Hello,

I am considering moving from ActiveState Perl v 5.10 && Cava Packager to Strawberry Perl v 5.18 && the PAR package from CPAN to deliver my windows executables.

My issue is that I don't have access to CPAN and cannot arrange for this access, so using CPAN tools to download and install is not an option for me. To date, all additonal PMs I ever needed were literally copy / pasted into a text editor, written to my Perl install, and renamed as needed.

I'd be grateful if anyone can point me in the direction of a step by step guide for getting CPAN PAR pp working in this situation, or else to an alternative tool chain that will do the same thing - and is being actively maintained.

I'm afraid commercial solutions are not open to me.

Apologies for any lack of familiarity with precise terms: I've not used CPAN PAR pp etc before.

Thanks in advance!

In reply to Build EXE without CPAN access by v4169sgr

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