in reply to How to create stand alone Exe

A fellow monk wrote a tool called perlc that can pack everything into a single executable, you can grab it Here. From what I've seen, it works fairly well. For a truly cross-platform solution you might want to use the likes of MagicErmine on the executable that perlc creates. I picked up a copy of Ermine for £30, which isn't bad considering what a great job it does. I can move my executable from RedHat, to Ubuntu, to Slackware and not need the necessary libraries installed on the target machine. I do not know how well this method would go with a Tk app, I have yet to try.

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Re^2: How to create stand alone Exe
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 16, 2012 at 14:30 UTC

    A fellow monk wrote a tool called perlc that can pack everything into a single executable, you can grab it Here. From what I've seen, it works fairly well.

    No, it is completely unsuitable for this purpose (or any purpose really)

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      There is no perfect solution when it comes to building a standalone executable from Perl. From my experience I was able to create one using perlc then use MagicErmine on that binary to create a standalone cross-platform 32/64bit executable that successfully ran on multiple distributions. As I mentioned, though, I have not tried it with Tk.
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        There is no perfect solution when it comes to building a standalone executable from Perl.... As I mentioned, though, I have not tried it with Tk.

        PAR/PerlApp/CavaPackager.. are all designed this purpose and work out of the box today -- perlc isn't and it won't work, it isn't any kind of solution to the problem of deploying self-contained perl apps.

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