SPUG: perl2exe perl-cgi file size problem

Meryll Larkin humbaba9 at yahoo.com
Thu May 2 12:23:32 CDT 2002


5/2/02

Hi SPUGsters,

I have a 14.5K perl-cgi script that generates a Web
page.  I want to put it on an IIS Server (stuck with
that for the moment) which is housing my domain.  This
server has a mock cgi-bin that will run perl2exe
files.

When I compile with perl2exe, the file bloats to
1016K.  When I realized it was compiling all of CGI.pm
(standard) into the exe, I stripped down the script to
use the minimim amount of CGI that I could.  The
script is now only using param from CGI, and all the
rest is Perl (including 3 function calls to
time)(mostly Perl printing complex HTML).  More than
300K is from CGIpm (still, even 700K is an enormous
Web file).

So, before I embark on a project more time consuming
than writing the original script, (wading through
CGI.pm to see if I could steal or adapt the param
method and embed it into my script) I wanted to ask:

Does anyone have any recommendations (other than
getting off the IIS - that's for later this year) for
me to try with my Perl script and perl2exe?

Thanks,
Meryll Larkin




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