can you create windows DLL's in Perl?

[MrMango]

I come from a UNIX programming background, having spent the past couple of years writing almost exclusively tcl/tk code (with a little bit of Perl when my boss wasn't looking) on a Solaris platform.<br><br>In my new job, I'm doing exclusively windows programming and am finding that the easy things on Unix are hard on windows.&nbsp;&nbsp;There are some basic things that are easy in perl (and tcl/tk) that I would like to import into this VB-like programming language I'm using.&nbsp;&nbsp;I can import DLLs written in C or C++, but it's been too long since I've used those languages so I thought I'd see if anyone here knew how to &quot;compile&quot; perl functions into a DLL.<br><br>Thanks,<br>David

 

[sesth]

You can buy a perl compiler (from Active State) and create a COM-Server from your perl program. But I think a better solution is the Windows Scripting Host (WSH). Active State's Perl distribution comes along with a Perl Scripting Engine. Perl scripts can run under control of WSH. MS offers a Script Control that can be used in VB programs.

 

[never]

I solved my problems porting my Per scripts to NT and compiling with Perl2exe and then compressing with Aspack, getting an .EXE with about 300Kb