[sf-perl] Packaging perl MSWin applications (using wxPerl)
David Ljung Madison
pm.org at daveola.com
Sat Sep 27 16:33:59 PDT 2008
I have a wxPerl application that is the front-end to a perl script.
I want to package the whole thing up with an installer that installs:
- my wxPerl front end
- my script
- perl (probably cygWin?)
- wxWindows
- wxPerl
- ..and anything else I might need.
The project is freeware (i.e., it has no $price to fully use),
so I can't afford any *per-user* license fees, but I can spend
a little bit of money on making a good package.
The questions that are racing through my mind are:
1) What's a good wrapper/installer for this kind of project?
It'd be nice if it could be done by a single executable.
2) What's the best way to package wxPerl on MSWin?
3) Which versions of MSWin do I need to support to cover most
of the MSWin community? Vista? XP? 2k? I have no idea...
4) Which perl to use? I attempted porting to cygwin and
activestate before, but activestate had some problems
with opening pipes. Although if that's resolved, I
guess it would probably be easier to package the activestate
perl rather than the monstrous entirety that is cygwin.
Dave
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