Make your C:/Perl (or whatever) directory shared, read-only with a share name of "Perl". Run your script through pl2bat (which is included with your copy of Perl). Edit the resulting *.bat file to replace the call to "perl" with a call to "//bigtiny/Perl/bin/perl" (you can use backslashes instead of forward slashes if you prefer).

On a typical corporate Windows-based network, this will work, though a bit slowly. Get your coworkers hooked and then get them to install Perl to make things run faster.

If you don't plan to run this on Win9x, then you can even have the *.bat file silently detect whether a local copy of Perl can be used. On Win9x, such a test is harder and may require spurious errors be displayed in some cases.

Here is some untested sample code (I don't have Win9x handy):

if "%OS%" == "Windows_NT" goto WinNT
perl -x -S "%0" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
if errorlevel 1 //bigtiny/perl/bin/perl -x -S "%0" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %
+7 %8 %9
goto endofperl
:WinNT
perl -x -S "%0" %*
if NOT "%COMSPEC%" == "%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe" goto endofperl
if %errorlevel% == 9009 //bigtiny/perl/bin/perl -x -S "%0" %1 %2 %3 %4
+ %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
if %errorlevel% == 9009 echo You do not have Perl in your PATH.
if errorlevel 1 goto script_failed_so_exit_with_non_zero_val 2>nul
goto endofperl
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Distributing Perl would definitely be a good idea, as it is free, and then they have the opportunity to change the scripts and run them as necessary.

Depending on the nature of your scripts though, it is always a possibility to make them available to your coworkers via a web browser. Linux comes with Apache, and you can easily set up PWS or IIS on a Windows box, and just make your scripts accessible that way. They could just fire up their browser, and browse out to the perl scripts on your computer. Have fun,
-Eric

PerlApp from ActiveState is a good choice for this, if you can afford the cost of the Perl Development Kit.

It's now also available for Non-Win32 platforms, e.g., Linux. It's a great thing for packaging stand-alone apps, IMHO.

Christian Lemburg
Brainbench MVP for Perl
http://www.brainbench.com