Perl Executable possible?

[hagbardc]

Is there any way to compile a perl program (spanning multiple package files) into an executable that can be run on a computer without a perl interpreter? tia -

hagbardc

 

[Stiddy]

http://www.perl.com/search/index.ncsp?sp-q=perl2exe

 

[goBoating]

I use perlApp which is available from

http://www.activestate.com

(commercial product, costs money). I have distributed several perl/Tk applications to about 20 PCs running Win NT and 2K and it seems to work very well. 'hope this helps

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[MikeLacey]

ah... I didn't know you were a Tk person goBoating... Mike
______________________________________________________________________
"Experience is the comb that Nature gives us after we are bald."

Is that a haiku?
I never could get the hang
of writing those things.

 

[goBoating]

' Played with it a little.

We needed to create stand-alone PC apps to create/manage strictly formatted text/data records. I found Tk to be competent, if not as robust as Java/swing, and a whole lot faster/easier to write. The Perl/Tk apps have generally been glorified text editors that enforce some structure and content rules on the records without the user having to worry about it. The data records are then parsed and inserted into a database. (yet another chore for which Perl is perfect).

'hope this helps

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