Hello, fellow monks.

I'm developing some perl code for a non-developer friend and would like to distribute it to him as a standalone executable. I'm aware of how to do this, as it has been discussed before. What I'm wondering is, what's the "best" solution.

I'm currently using PerlApp, which seems to work pretty well, but I've also been hearing a lot about PAR recently. There's also perlcc, perlbin, and perl2exe (and likely more).

I'm using PerlApp since I have a license for it and Komodo, so cost is not an issue. That said, I've never used any of the alternatives. What's your favourite "perl compiler" (an inaccurate term for some of these, but you know what I'm getting at), and why?

In reply to PAR/pp vs. PerlApp et al. by geekphilosopher

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