Hello , I was looking at options to build a Perl exe. I found PAR to be of my liking as its free. I tried Perl2exe, PerlApp but they are not free. There is a free version of Perl2exe available but it gives some 2 seconds delay in the exe.

But the strange thing i noticed in almost all of them is that even for simple program they build a huge output file. Just for example i tested it on a simple hello world program with strict and warnings pragmas included , it outputs a file of 1.5 MB.

I have a requirement to build a exe for a program with XML::Simple & other modules included. In fact XML::Simple itself requires lots of other modules. so i was worried what size of output it will produce. Can you all tell me is there a simpler way to build exe which produces somewhat less heavt output files.

Rgds, Neeraj.

In reply to PAR creating an exe very large in size by neeraj

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