Re: Paring Down Perl

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.

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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
Supposedly AM referred to the use of UPX. If it doesn't work, it doesn't save space. PAR itself will obviously save space unless you happen to use all installed modules in your system. /J	[reply]