On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:00:15 -0800, Dean Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Sean McMahon wrote:
> > When I use perlcc to compile something like module.pm perlcc says
> > compiling of shared objects is disabled. Does anyone know how to fix
> > this? Anyone have tips on how to get perl to compile into a binary
> > executable?
> > thanks
> > Sean
> >
>
> Not sure what perlcc has to do with DBI, but I'll bite.
>
> As it says in the POD, "perlcc is *very* experimental".
So experimental that it has been removed in the current development branch,
and so it will not be there in perl-5.10:
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 28790] By: rgs on 2006/09/06 14:04:33
Log: Remove perlcc and the byteloader
Branch: perl
> IIRC, there was/is some discussion of removing it from
> the upcoming 5.10 release.
So, that rumour has turned into proven truth
> To my knowledge, it has never
> worked reliably except on the most trivial of scripts.
> And unless you're prepared to roll up your sleeves and muck
> in, you're pretty much out of luck wrt support.
>
> If you really need to create a standalone executable, I'd
> suggest you look into PAR/pp, or any of the commercial
> alternatives (my personal fav is perl2exe). While they're
> not really "compiled", they generally accomplish the same
> net effect.
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