Paring Down Perl

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Re: Paring Down Perl by Joost (Canon) on Oct 14, 2004 at 16:52 UTC
I think PAR (and its `pp` program) should be able to do this for you - it will create a single executable containing a perl interpreter, the script and any modules it needs. As far as I know it the resulting binary should be smaller than a full perl install. Check it out. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Paring Down Perl by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 14, 2004 at 17:07 UTC
You might consider, or suggest to your PC guy, that the application + perl be placed on a shared drive somewhere the 200 PC's can get at it and distribute a shortcut to the individual PCs. It'd save a heap of disc space at the cost of a slightly longer delay on startup. Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "Think for yourself!" - Abigail "Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algorithm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon	[reply]
Re: Paring Down Perl by jplindstrom (Monsignor) on Oct 14, 2004 at 17:38 UTC
If you package it with PAR or PerlApp, you can also try to compress the exe file with UPX. I remember it not working with early versions of PAR, but that may work by now, so give it a try. /J	[reply]
Re^2: Paring Down Perl by Anonymous Monk on Oct 14, 2004 at 22:09 UTC
It won't work with any version of PAR and won't buy you any extra compression.	[reply]
Re^3: Paring Down Perl by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Oct 15, 2004 at 05:55 UTC
Can you justify that remark? A full Perl install, ActiveState or otherwise, is much larger than even a big PAR executable (eg, I am playing around with one right now that has an attached database and a couple dozen modules that is still only 3M). And if the original script isn't doing anything terribly tricky (and the OP says it's not) then PAR should work without any trouble at all.	[reply]
Re^4: Paring Down Perl by jplindstrom (Monsignor) on Oct 15, 2004 at 07:38 UTC
Re: Paring Down Perl by mattriff (Chaplain) on Oct 14, 2004 at 16:52 UTC
You probably want to check out PAR, which will package everything in to an executable for you. - Matt Riffle	[reply]
Re: Paring Down Perl by radiantmatrix (Parson) on Oct 14, 2004 at 19:53 UTC
In addition to using the PAR `pp` packager, you can also use ActiveState's Komodo environment to build PAR .exe files right from the IDE. radiantmatrix `require General::Disclaimer;`	[reply]
Re: Paring Down Perl by displeaser (Hermit) on Oct 15, 2004 at 16:01 UTC
You might also try Tinyperl: http://tinyperl.sourceforge.net/ it's a bit buggy but may be useful for you. As your script is written for Win32 if you package it into an .msi file with the activeperl dev kit you can easily distribute it (or provide it for optional install) through group policy	[reply]
Re: Paring Down Perl by Anonymous Monk on Oct 18, 2004 at 04:19 UTC
What does this script do? It might be possible to compile to EXE via using the activestate Perl dev kit, which will compile portions of the perl interpreter so that the script can execute independant of a perl install. I've used it before, and it's super. Ben ben.chase@fairchild.af.mil	[reply]