I have own technique to solve same problem for me. It includes few steps:

• substituting Dynaloader.pm and overloading "use.pm",
• packaging number of library files into single archive, so that use module; will go to that archive
• throwing away AutoLoad.pm for those packages
• few other trivial steps to make stup "exe" which calls perl with a given script as parameter.

This way I ended up with about 10 DLLs (some more or less depending on actual modules usage) and about 5 auxiliary files needed to bootstrup my mechanic.
This is for Perl/Tk applications.

Starting from some moment I moved to Tcl::Tk module instead of Perl/Tk and quantity of files changed.

That said, I invented my own method in addition to PAR, perl2exe, and gmpassos's tinyperl.
Why?
PAR creates big forest in TEMP; at least this requires some space on HDD to write, yet there will be more and more garbage after few crashed invocations;
perl2exe is old unsupported and discouraged to use (AFAIK);
and can't comment on tinyperl, because just can't.
:)

Courage, the Cowardly Dog

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