As with the Perl2exe suggestion, this is the wrong direction. I WANT to put the Perl environment on the user's PC, so that I can lead them into the opportunity to tinker and learn. I just want to do so with minimum fuss and bother for that initial setup.

My hidden motive here is to seed the user base with Perl and working applications and encouragement to tinker, in the hopes that one day a few of them will grow into Perl enthusiasts. Just handing a working EXE to them, with all the "bones" carefully hidden away defeats the purpose. I want to give them the whole Perl Magic, and make it easily accessible to anyone who cares to look under the hood.

Thanks, Nat

In reply to Re^2: Installer for Perl Application by wa4otj
in thread Installer for Perl Application by wa4otj

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