I know this topic keeps coming up. In fact, the topic has been kind of an open question for at least 25 years now with many and varied almost-solutions that never seemed quite to work. I know it has been discussed here, but I think the newest thread on it is several years old. What's the current state of making self-contained perl executable programs? I can think of two variations here: one is a complete executable, the other is one that only depends on their being a perl interpreter {but doesn't depend on any local module installs}. I'm asking because I have a bunch of perl programs that I've been asked to make available over the web. Problem: i have no install privileges on the web server and it is a unix system. I can develop a full CGI version of my program here on my windows PC {I have a local web server on localhost:80 {that currently is making the wonderful Pod::Pom package available}} and it'd be very handy if there was as little hassle as possible taking a working CGI program from my environment on my PC and plunking it down in the cgi-bin on the server and have it mostly all work.

In reply to Self contained Perl executables by BernieC

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