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.

In reply to Re^2: Build EXE without CPAN access by v4169sgr
in thread Build EXE without CPAN access by v4169sgr

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