in reply to Porting Perl programs

Why didn't you search first? this is answered more times, lik here: Creating a windows EXE from Perl script

> Also, is it too hard to port a perl program that uses various downloaded libraries from Windows to UNIX
That depends on the libraries, are they perl specific? yes, just download them via cpan...

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