Hi Monks,

Continuing on trying to have an Inkscape integration of Perl extensions, I've been playing with Strawberry Perl as many of you suggested me and have been very impressed by its possibilities (I already got a patch from the Win32 Inkscape team to call wperl.exe instead of perl.exe and they confirmed me they only focussed on Python and didn't even thought of having Perl extensions running on Win32).

I'm now trying to find a way to use perldist_strawberry to get what I would call "a minimum runtime Perl installation for (Inkscape) End-Users".

I already red a few previous topics about building a minimal Perl runtime, but I didn't found really what I was looking for. So I'm trying to explain more exactly what I'm trying to get: an auto-installable (ie msi or exe) package that would allow end-users (people who doesn't even know what a computer is and how does it work) to run arbitrary Perl scripts, without even knowing what Perl is about, just knowing it is a required program to be installed on their desktop to get their extensions working.

That looks for me like a subset or Strawberry Perl with only perl.exe wperl.exe as executable binaries which can load modules (so miniperl is not enough) with only a subset of vital/important modules (such as CORE modules or XML::LibXML for example but I have not yet any clear idea of what modules that really means) and all the .DLL and PATH definitions required to have this Perl run and and load its pre-built modules, excluding all the unneeded development tools as the C mingwin32 environment or Cpan module build utilities, neither than any pods/html or any docs that will never be used and/or red.

I would like to have your wise advises on this idea as I'm in a very early stage and don't know yet about the traps and pitfalls I could fall in neither than the good way to achieve this or if someone already built up such a thing.

So any suggestion or comment from you is very welcome...

Thanks in advance for your time.

In reply to Runtime only Perl for Win32 by fdesar

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