On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, david wrote:
> Reggie Kogulan wrote: > > > Aaron, > > What I am looking is to distribute the executable only. Not the code. like > > a compiled C program will generates a.out or jar file in java. Thats all I > > am looking for. > > > > Someone earlier said to use perlcc. Which I did now. I do not see an > > executable file. > > > > example: $perlcc -o testfile test.pl > > > > Did not produce testfile at all. > > Is there something else I need to do? > > > > perlcc is experimental so don't be suprise if it doesn't work. you can > generate the c file and compile it yourself (asking for perlcc to generate > the c code might be easier then asking it to generate the binary for you). > following these steps (assuming your perl script is named script.pl): > > [panda]$ perlcc -S script.pl > [panda]$ perl -MConfig -e 'print $Config{cc}\n"' > [panda]$ perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ccopts -e ldopts > [panda]$ gcc -o script.out script.c <options from above> > [panda]$ file script.out > [panda]$ script.out > > steps: > > 1. ask perlcc to generate a script.c file from script.pl > 2. ask Config to show us what compiler is Perl itself compiled into. You > will need to use the same complier! in my box, it's a gcc > 3. Ask ExtUtil to show us what options Perl itself is compiled into. this > will print long option line so you will probably want to '> options.txt' > 4. use gcc to compile script.c into a binary script.out. '<options from > above>' means whatever you store into options.txt in step 3. without the > options, gcc probably won't compile correctly. > 5. simply shows you that you really end up with a binary for your os > 6. runs it. > > if you are having problem compiling the c source, it's probably due to > missing headers, use the following to find out where those headers such as > EXTERN.h and perl.h are really locaed: > > [panda]$ perl -MConfig -e 'print "$Config{archlib}\n"' > > i have been using this method to generate some simply perl binaries for fun. > if that doesn't work for you, forget you ever heard perlcc. :-) > > david Thanks for the excellent guidelines.Using the above steps i can able to generate an exe file for a simple script.But at the same time i applied the above steps to a complex script fo which i got the following error message. ###### /usr/bin/perlcc: multipleanalyseV5.0.pl did not compile, which can't happen: Starting compile Walking tree Prescan Saving methods ###### Any directions...... Thanks, visu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]