I'm new to Perl, but I have been given a perl script and a perl module file that converts an input file to a different file type. I have been told to look for options to make these two files into a standalone executable that can be run on any Windows machine (I'm not sure whether I'll have to make one that's 64 bit and one that's 32 bit, but I don't think that is an important issue as of now) by simply dragging and dropping the input file onto the executable.

I have looked through the options (pp, perl2exe, etc.) and have pretty much decided on pp because it's free and seems like it's pretty easy to use. I can make an executable with pp and I know that it includes the modules that I need (or at least I know how to include those modules), but how do I include the module given to me that isn't in cpan? I tried just including it in the files for the executable, but that doesn't seem to work.

So in summary, I want to create an executable from a perl script and perl module that runs the script when given an input file. Thanks for any help!

In reply to Making a standalone executable by Uggles

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