SPUG: perl2exe perl-cgi file size problem

[David Innes (CSG)]

Hmm.

First of all why use perl2exe at all?  The 'mock cgi-bin' folder under IIS
is typically pretty mundane.  It's just a regular IIS folder with permission
to execute a particular interpreter against files with the right extension.
Unless your server admins have done something really weird with IIS you
should be able to run straight scripts against the regular perl.exe
interpreter.

Second of all why use perl.exe and CGI-Bin at all?  Your script will
certainly run dozens if not scores of times faster if you use PerlIS
instead.  PerlIS is an ISAPI dll that comes for free with the standard
ActiveState Perl distribution.  In the very unlikely event that's still not
fast enough ActiveState has some commercial-but-still-pretty-cheap solutions
but I've never felt a need to explore them.

		-- David Innes



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-spug-list at pm.org [mailto:owner-spug-list at pm.org]On Behalf Of
Meryll Larkin
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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