Title: RE: compiling cgi scripts with perlapp
Jeremy,
I don't really see the advantages of using perlapp for CGI scripts.
I am told that executables created by perlapp do not run faster than the perl scripts they replace. However, the executables are much larger (more bytes) than the
of course it works :)
the web server knows nothing about _how_ to run the file - it just detects if it
passes all the runnability criteria (.cgi extension etc) and passes it to a
pseudo-shell. The script needs only to read the relevant environment variables, and
write valid cgi output to its STD
Hi all,
I just recently discovered, that i can compile cgi scripts into exe,
keeping the cgi extension.
what i typed was "perlapp myapp.cgi --exe myapp.cgi"
When i run the cgi script on my webserver, apache (win32 version), it runs
with no problem.
I am wondering if this has been done before, a