in reply to Distribute cross-platform perl application

For MacOS X, you could try the following approach:

I don't have an article handy that shows the structure of Mac OS X app-directories, but you might google for it or look at another app to see how it's done. The created app will look to the user as one file.

Update: I'm not recommending this for linux because distributing compiled versions of software (ImageMagick in that case) can be problematic on linux (library issues, different kinds of processor (x86, Sparc), etc.)