Ok, I'm little confused about the underlying process of what I'm trying to do, so bear with me:

I've got a Perl script on Win32 that I want to compile, as the systems I'm going to be running this on don't have Perl installed.

I've got Cygwin installed on my development machine along with the Cygwin distribution of Perl 5.6.

I want to compile the script so that it doesn't have a dependency on cygwin.dll - from the perldoc pages I've read so far, I think perlcc will generate/compile C code. Here's where I'm unclear: if I run perlcc from within Cygwin, will it generate an executable with a dependency on cygwin.dll?? Or can I follow the instructions here for a mingw compile?? Or will it be a stand-alone executable on Win32 without me having to do anything else??

In reply to compiling Perl scripts in Cygwin by Anonymous Monk

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