Sorry to dissent, but I would strongly advocate to buy the NT resource kit for these things. The PerlApp compiler will do what you want, and as an added bonus your Perl programs become respectable EXEs, which might help in a non-Perl-aware environment (I mean, who cares about the language in which an EXE was done - only geeks like us).

Even if you spend the money from your own account, it is not much (about 100-200 US$ or so, if I remember correctly), and some hours of your work time easily add up to this amount.

A strategy that has worked for me in the past is buying the kit in advance on my own account, prove that it helps to solve real problems, and then getting back to the company to make them buy the kit from me, so I get my money back.

Christian Lemburg
Brainbench MVP for Perl
http://www.brainbench.com

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