> -----Original Message----- > From: Ch Lamprecht [mailto:ch.l.n...@online.de] > Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2016 03:31 > To: Johan Vromans; par@perl.org > Subject: Re: Including shared libraries > > Am 30.06.2016 um 11:58 schrieb Johan Vromans: > > On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 00:14:00 +0200 > > Roderich Schupp <roderich.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 11:49 PM, Johan Vromans <jvrom...@squirrel.nl> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> pp executables are not as stand-alone as the ones from Cava and > >>> PerlApp. > >>> > >> > >> Care to elaborate? > > > > Sure. > > > > I've been working with PerlApp for many years (up to 2013) to deliver > > commercial, wxPerl based Windows applications. From 2008 I (also) used > Cava > > Packager in combination with Citrus Perl to deliver cross-platform > (Linux, > > Windows, OSX) wxPerl based applications. > > > > The main goal was, and still is, to deliver something to the user that > just > > works without hassle. Currentday users do not know, nor care, about > > operating systems, Perl, wxWidgets and so on. They click to install, and > > click to run. > > With pp they don't even have to install, they click and it just runs fine. > I'm > using pp now for 10 years to deliver an executable that includes Postgres > client > libraries and Tk UI. It works fine on Linux MacOS and Windows. > Thanks to Roderich for all the work! > > Cheers, Christoph
Like Christoph I have been using pp to make standalone Windows programs for a number of years. I have only had a few issues: 1. It can be a bit tricky under Windows adding an icon to the executable and populating its property fields but it is doable. 2. The application takes a long time to start because it is using the native Perl zip libraries. There may be a way around this but I haven't looked into it. Roderich is extremely patient and responsive to questions and bug reports. Thank you Roderich for all your hard work. Johan, Based on your posts I looked into Citrus Perl and Cava Packager and followed some of your posts on the subject. It is unfortunate that both projects have been abandoned. Cava Packager has some features that would make nice additions to pp but it seems that the Cava's current license precludes using Cava code which means developing the features from scratch unless we can get Cava's author to release the code which seems unlikely. keith -- Keith R. Watson Georgia Institute of Technology Information Security Engineer Lead College of Computing keith.wat...@cc.gatech.edu 801 Atlantic Drive NW (404) 385-7401 Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
