SPUG: perl2exe perl-cgi file size problem

[Asim Jalis]

The file is 1016K because perl2exe combines the
interpreter and your Perl code into a single file.
Rewriting CGI.pm or using a smaller module won't
change the size of the executable substantially. 

Your comment
 
> (still, even 700K is an enormous Web file).

is a little confusing. As someone else pointed out
the script is not downloaded over the internet. 

Asim 

Meryll Larkin
> 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?

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