SPUG: Re: Perl Compiler.

Andrew Crum akcrum at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 8 20:35:29 CST 2001 

Glad to. Didn't mean to hold out.

I have had luck using Perl2exe (www.indigostar.com). Use it on a regular 
basis at work. Like perlapp, it's not really compiling perl, but does build 
a binary that both hides your source code and doesn't require a customer's 
machine to have perl resources.
I use it to build binaries for Linux and Solaris. My colleagues use it for 
Win32 builds. It works for other flavors of UNIX as well.
It's even supposed to be possible to use Perl2exe to build a UNIX binary on 
a Win32 platform, but I haven't done much with that.
John Cokos had asked if it worked with DBI.pm, etc, and I can say it does 
indeed. I've installed many CPAN modules referenced by my code, including 
the modules he mentioned.
One thing I had to discover was that, when preparing to install a new module 
that would then be used with Perl2exe, my $PATH had to be modified to point 
to Perl2exe's copy of bin/perl instead of locating the standard bin/perl. 
With that resolved, building a new executable worked smoothly:
PATH=~perl2exe_top:~perl2exe_top/perl5/bin:${PATH}
PERL5LIB=<paths for my modules>
perl2exe -w <my_perl_script>

You can download a trial version of Perl2exe but will get a nag message when 
running your executable until you pay for a registration code.
- Andrew Crum



>From: Daryn Nakhuda <daryn at marinated.org>
>To: Andrew Crum <akcrum at hotmail.com>
>CC: spug-list at pm.org
>Subject: Re: SPUG: Re: Re: Perl Compiler.
>Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 16:35:58 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>Hi, Please communicate the details online... I'm sure more of us than just
>John would like to know.
>
>-d
>
>
>On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Andrew Crum wrote:
>
> > Yes. (fyi - details communicated offline).
> >
> > >From: "John Cokos, CEO, iWeb, Inc." <jcokos at iwebsys.com>
> > >To: "Andrew Crum" <akcrum at hotmail.com>, <spug-list at pm.org>
> > >Subject: SPUG: Re: Re: Perl Compiler.
> > >Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 15:29:28 -0800
> > >
> > >The last time I tried that program, it wouldn't support
> > >any external .pm files (either those from CPAN or those
> > >that I'd written) at all.  Only the stuff that he shipped
> > >with it.  I gave up on it: without DBI or DBD, it's useless.
> > >
> > >Can I assume that it's changed since then?
> > >
> > >John
> > >
> > >========================================
> > >   John Cokos, President / CEO: iWeb Inc.
> > >   http://www.iwebsys.com
> > >   jcokos at ccs.net
> > >========================================
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Andrew Crum" <akcrum at hotmail.com>
> > >To: <spug-list at pm.org>
> > >Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 2:57 PM
> > >Subject: SPUG: Re: Perl Compiler.
> > >
> > >
> > > > I use IndigoStar's Perl2exe product to compile perl on Win32, Linux 
>and
> > > > Solaris. I install needed CPAN modules directly into the perl2exe 
>tree
> > >as
> > > > well as use $PERL5LIB to point the way to my modules. Questions?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >From: Dean Hudson <dean at ero.com>
> > > > >To: John Cokos <jcokos at iwebsys.com>
> > > > >CC: spug-list at pm.org
> > > > >Subject: SPUG: Re: Perl Compiler.
> > > > >Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:28:04 -0800
> > > > >
> > > > >On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 07:18:07PM -0800, John Cokos wrote:
> > > > > > Has anyone messed around with the compiler yet?
> > > > >
> > > > >I started once, then decided that C was easier; you can embed a 
>perl
> > > > >interpreter into your C code with relatively little pain. No CPAN,
> > > > >though.
> > > > >
> > > > >dean.
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