Re: PAR creating an exe very large in size

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The biggest part of that output file is the perlXX.dll where XX stands for the version. For me that would be the file perl58.dll with 785 KB.

I know that PerlApp has the ability to "compile" scripts without the dll. But then of course the target computer must have the dll installed, but only once. I'm pretty sure that PAR has a similar option.

holli, /regexed monk/

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Re^2: PAR creating an exe very large in size by davidrw (Prior) on Aug 10, 2005 at 16:21 UTC
yup, PAR has it too (from pp docs): d, --dependent Reduce the executable size by not including a copy of perl interpreter. Executables built this way will need a separate perl5x.dll or libperl.so to function correctly. This option is only available if perl is built as a shared library.	[reply]

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Re^2: PAR creating an exe very large in size
by davidrw (Prior) on Aug 10, 2005 at 16:21 UTC

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d, --dependent

    Reduce the executable size by not including a copy of perl interpreter. Executables
    built this way will need a separate perl5x.dll or libperl.so to function correctly.
    This option is only available if perl is built as a shared library.

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