Who are the vendors in compiled perl executable?

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Re: Who are the vendors in compiled perl executable? by athanasia (Pilgrim) on Dec 19, 2008 at 10:00 UTC
Hi, I have tried two applications in order to create standalone perl executables for my perl applications. The one is PAR::Packer's pp command PAR::Packer which you can download from CPAN and has several useful features. The second one is http://www.cava.co.uk/packaging/index.html Some problems I have had with the first were the long startup time of the executable and the not so obvious importing of icons and/or figures to your exe. Cava deals with these issues more effectively, at least to my opinion. On the other hand, PAR::Packer compiles everything to one executable, whereas with Cava the executable is of smaller size but the libraries and modules are in a separate folder which you must copy to the PC you will run your exe. Hope this helps, Athanasia	[reply]
Re: Who are the vendors in compiled perl executable? by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Dec 19, 2008 at 13:25 UTC
ActiveState provide a perl2exe converter with their PDK (perl dev kit - http://www.activestate.com/Products/perl_dev_kit/index.mhtml) ... available on a 21 day trial period, after which it comes at a cost. A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))	[reply]
Re^2: Who are the vendors in compiled perl executable? by rajib (Novice) on Dec 19, 2008 at 16:57 UTC
thanks for reminding that familiar name activestate... I recalll using their distribution on windows... as always, I appreciate all of the great feedbacks.	[reply]
Re: Who are the vendors in compiled perl executable? by Bunta (Initiate) on Dec 19, 2008 at 07:39 UTC
Hiya, I have just begun learning Perl, but one of the perl -> exe programs I found is called "Perl2Exe". It has worked fine for me. However, I haven't tried it with any large programs, only very small ones that I have been making while learning. It has a 30 day evaluation period on it. -Brad	[reply]