Dear all,

I have successfully used Cava http://www.cava.co.uk/ in order to create standalone executables for my Perl/Tk scripts in Windows platforms and would like to do something similar for MAC OS platforms.

To be more specific, although Perl is installed by default in most MAC OS platforms, I want to create a standalone application that incorporates all required modules and can be run -without opening a terminal- simply by double-clicking on an icon.

After some googling, I realised that I have fairly limited options:

- PAR::Packer (pp) http://search.cpan.org/~smueller/PAR-Packer-0.991/lib/pp.pm

which does not allow me to use --gui option in non-Windows systems and requires to open a terminal

- perl2exe http://www.indigostar.com/perl2exe.htm which includes gui option only in the professional version which is not free

- ??

I have seen something called CamelBones but from a quick look in the docs haven't managed to understand if this is the tool I am looking for or how it works. Has anyone looked into this tool or managed to pack perl scripts for MAC? I would really appreciate it if someone could share their experience.

Thanks in advance,
Athanasia

In reply to Perl packager for MAC OS by athanasia

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