Re: Re: Perl executables on a machine w/out Perl installed

I've used perl2exe on win32 with much success. I bought the LITE version and its seems quite solid.

PROS:
No need for perl or any modules to be installed on the destination machines. Just the host(Dev machine).

NEUTRAL:
EXE sizes are over 500K minimum. Not an issue for me.

CONS:
The registration process and KEYING to a windows username was a pain in the ***.

Hope that helps.

WrongWay

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Re: Re: Re: Perl executables on a machine w/out Perl installed by Xxaxx (Monk) on Jun 05, 2001 at 04:16 UTC
A question about the Perl2Exe. Did you use Perl2Exe with ActiveState or with IndigoPerl? Thanks in advance Claude	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Perl executables on a machine w/out Perl installed by mpolo (Chaplain) on Jun 05, 2001 at 10:33 UTC
I spent some time playing with Perl2Exe on a relatively big program and failed to have any success... "Out of the Box", it ignores your site_perl lib directories, so you have to either explicitly use libs or set an environment variable to get it to find them. While the sample scripts included with the package did run, I never managed to get my script going. A Super Search here for perl2exe convinced me that I was wasting my time trying to get it to work. Instead, I'm insisting that everyone install ActiveState Perl on their machines. Afterwards, I'm using a free <mode value="slashdot"> (speech, beer) </mode> InstallShield clone, InnoSetup to do the install. I have to put a lot of things in to batch files that run at the end of the install, though.	[reply]