How Well Does Perl2exe Work for Large Applications?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday September 17, 2002 @02:50AM from the script-is-to-executable-as-dynamic-is-to-static dept.

bobm writes "One of the issues with not using the 'standard' MS tools (VC, VB, etc) is that you face the possiblity of having to load a lot of DLL's to support an application. I'm in this boat with a Perl app I would like to migrate to a couple of Windows 2000 servers. It's a simple app that runs well on our Unix boxes and if it wasn't for the overhead of having to install perl and all of the required modules, it would be a no brainer. However I just stumbled upon Perl2Exe at Indigostar. A small app worked great and I'm wondering if anyone else has used it and how large of an app have they released? Any other pointers and info on pertinent issues would be helpful too."

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Re:My advice: don't by ceejayoz · 2002-09-17 03:14 · Score: 3, Insightful

Consider simply distributing perl with the application.

Read what the guy said:

It's a simple app that runs well on our Unix boxes and if it wasn't for the overhead of having to install perl and all of the required modules, it would be a no brainer.