in reply to Installer for Perl Application

Have you tried Par? It allows you to create an executable which contains your modules, application, and Perl in a zip file. No installation required.

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Re^2: Installer for Perl Application
by wa4otj (Beadle) on Jul 10, 2009 at 19:32 UTC
    Gee. Never heard of Par. But it sounds like just what I need. Is that a take-off on 'Tar'? Sounds perfect. Thanks, I will look at it...

    Nat

      After an afternoon of reading docs, experimenting, and hair-pulling, I am giving up on PAR and PP, for much the same reason that I don't use Perl2Exe. It doesn't seem to work, or works unreliably, for this program. At this level of program complexity (Tk, Win32, SAPI, OLE, etc) it just seems to break. I tested some simpler programs that seem to work fine when compiled to an EXE using PP, but this one is just too complex.

      What I want is simply a simply way to install Active Perl, along with a list of PM's, all of which are in the Active PPM, and then drop my files into the appropriate directories. I had hoped that PAR could do that, but alas, it does not seem to quite do what I need.

      Thanks for all the help, but sadly, no joy.

      Nat