SPUG: perl2exe perl-cgi file size problem

[Parr, Ryan]

If you're going to be doing Perl for IIS then you really can't go wrong with
using ActiveState's Perl Dev Kit. The PerlApp component will probably be
able to allow you to do what you're looking for.

-- Ryan Parr

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		-- Albert Einstein


-----Original Message-----
From: Meryll Larkin [mailto:humbaba9 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 10:24 AM
To: SPUG List
Subject: SPUG: perl2exe perl-cgi file size problem


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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