in reply to Strawberry Perl, installers, and simple scripts

If you don't expect people to install more than this one Perl script, I wouldn't install a full Perl, as it easily takes up more than 100MB of disk space. That's plain ridiculous. Instead, I'd look at Perl script packers, a la PAR, to create an executable comprising of the script, the Perl binary, and the modules.

About a year ago I had a good look at a few of the freely available options; you can see my findings in a blog post.

Personally, I liked crazyinsomniac/PodMaster's solution, PerlBin, and Cava Packager, best. I haven't looked at it since then, but I expect that the latter likely has evolved a little; I don't think so, about the former. That unfortunately means that it will most likely not work for the more recent perl 5.10.x.

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Re^2: Strawberry Perl, installers, and simple scripts
by jprice (Novice) on Sep 15, 2008 at 20:56 UTC
    Thanks Bart for the link to the Cava Packager.
    I spent several days banging my head against the wall with PAR and pp, but never got a working standalone exe.
    The Cava Packager worked right out of the box!
    Thanks again.