Well I am a bit confused. PerlApp is part of Active State's development kit and will cost you about $300 - check their website for current pricing. This thing works better and is smarter than the free tools, but you have to buy it!

I must say that I am no salesman for Active State. I started using this thing a long time ago, Win NT, Perl 5.6. They've come a long way and the tool has definitely progressed. I am a satisfied user and I have found that this thing works.

Basically if you are getting paid money to write the Perl program that you want to make into an exe, then paying some money to make that process easier and better is not that much of a stretch.

You can use pp with ActiveState Perl. But you cannot use PerlApp with Strawberry Perl. Again, after a decade+ use, I would recommend PerlApp for professional environments.

In reply to Re^3: Converting to exe by Marshall
in thread Converting to exe by metronomu

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