Three weeks later, I finally had got a little time to sit down and mess with PAR, and let's just say I'm glad I waited on sending that check to the Perl2Exe people...this is a pretty neat piece of work!
Thanks much for the pointer, Laurent. --- Mark Roedel | "Blessed is he who has learned to laugh Systems Programmer | at himself, for he shall never cease LeTourneau University | to be entertained." Longview, Texas, USA | -- John Powell > -----Original Message----- > From: Laurent ROCHER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 12:26 PM > To: perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] [Win32::GUI] List of > missing desired widgets > > > Hi, > > Eventualy, you can take a look to PAR (Perl ARchive toolkit) > It's possible to turn a script to an executable. > > It's available via ActiveState PPM (but not last release, > 0.67 i think). > > See : http://search.cpan.org/author/AUTRIJUS/PAR-0.69/ > > Laurent. > > >> By the way, is there a way to get a stand-alone > >> Perl GUI application, like TGL.exe ? > >> > >> Even my C++ Builder application that are 300KB, > >> most come with 45 MB of DLL/BPL and similar in the current > directory. > >> So having one stand-alone EXE without Perl installed would > be great! > > > > It's not free software (time-limited trial versions are > available for > > download), but I've been pretty pleased with my results so far using > > Perl2Exe (http://www.indigostar.com/perl2exe.htm).
