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The difference is that pp generates a standalone application containing everything your script needs, including the entire perl interpreter and all required DLLs, whereas perlapp just wraps your script and a stub that loads the existing perl interpreter. The pp-generated EXE runs on a computer without perl, the perlapp-generated one doesn't.

Choose what you need: If the target computer has your perl version installed, use perlapp. If it doesn't, use pp. Or even better: Distribute the raw script and a perl installer.

(And by the way: The difference is not 7 bit, but 7 KBytes = 7 * 1024 Bytes * 8 Bit / Byte = 57.344 bits.)

Alexander

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Re^4: Compress exe file size
by srikrishnan (Beadle) on Jun 20, 2009 at 08:09 UTC 
    Hi,

Sorry I wrongly typed bit instead of kbyte.
Thanks for your valuable suggestions.

REgards,
Srikrishnan

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