Re: Can I use Archive::Zip to create a self-extracting exe for Windows?

I went to the Archive::Zip docs, did a find for "self" and found this snippet under the writeToFileHandle() method:

... this could be used (for instance) for making self-extracting archives. However, this only works reliably when writing to a real file (as opposed to STDOUT or some other possible non-file). See examples/selfex.pl for how to write a self-extracting archive.

direct link: http://search.cpan.org/src/SMPETERS/Archive-Zip-1.16/examples/selfex.pl

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Re^2: Can I use Archive::Zip to create a self-extracting exe for Windows? by inman (Curate) on Aug 26, 2005 at 07:49 UTC
If you use PAR to package your resulting script/data then you can distribute the self extracting archive to non-perl users.	[reply]