At 03:59 PM 2/28/2003, Morbus Iff wrote: >>The option of using PAR to distribute perl apps on OS X came up on my >>recent (slightly related) thread. I just installed it, and so far it >>seems to work quite well and easily. The files it produces are >>somewhat large, though: >> >>My real app (much larger than Hello, world) comes to about 1.9MB, and >>seems initially to work fine. I have yet to test my app thoroughly or >>test deploy it to other machines. > >What other lib's does it use? I'd be interested to see what needs to be >shipped to say, support Expat or Compress::Zlib, both not defaults.
Hmm, this slide:
http://www.autrijus.org/par-intro/slide005.html
suggests: "Shared object files (aka dll) are extracted with File::Temp", which would be really handy (theoretically, the expat stuff would be bundled inside, then extracted out on first run?? eh? i dunno).
The only downside for me? I sincerely doubt it'll work on Mac Classic (to create .exe's, you need nmake on Win32, easily enough, and presumably, the OS X Developer Tools. But I'm not shelling out bucks for CodeWarrior, etc., to get the same functionality under Mac Classic).
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