That's not a compiler, except in the sense of "compile" meaning "to bring together". It's merely an installer-maker.

It does nothing to speed up the run time. It can certainly be fooled about which of your library versions need to be included. It duplicately installs modules. The source code is trivially contained within the exe file, for anyone to pluck out. And the interpreter is useless except for that program, and cannot be reused for other Perl programs.

Much better to tell people to spend two minutes installing Perl from activestate, the three PPM commands they'll need, and then they have not only your program up and running, but have an entire environment to use others as well.

perl2exe is a scam. Please stop promoting it.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

In reply to Re: Re: Perl executables on a machine w/out Perl installed by merlyn
in thread Perl executables on a machine w/out Perl installed by Anonymous Monk

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