RE: compiling cgi scripts with perlapp

2004-05-23 Thread
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

Re: compiling cgi scripts with perlapp

2004-05-22 Thread Mike Jackson
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

compiling cgi scripts with perlapp

2004-05-22 Thread Jeremy A
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