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but i need something that is stable

They're all stable, but none of them are compilers

I have always heard if you are on Linux and compile on Linux then your compiled code will not run on windows.

Yeah, that is how it works. There is such things as cross compilers and virtual machines, so you can compile for a different platform by running such a platform

I like http://CavaPackager.com/ and http://CitrusPerl.com

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Re^2: Best perl compiler??
by WhiteCrane (Initiate) on May 26, 2012 at 13:54 UTC
    The Perl-interpreter is needed to run Perl-code.
    Typically, the interpreter is written in C.
    There are different versions of the interpreter, some for Linux, others for Windows.
    As the Perl-script runs on top of the interpreter, it is platform-independent, but the interpreter itself isn't.

    perl2exe, PAR and others extract the files from the interpreter which are needed to run the script and put it all together into some code-package.
    That's the way, they make the program seemingly independent from the interpreter: They supply the interpreter-parts (taken from the installed version of the interpreter) together with the script.

    They do not compile the Perl-script to C or something.
    If you wonder, why they don't, take a look at this article:

    http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/06/27/ctoperl.html

    Cheers

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