Barry Veinotte on Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:29:29 -0500 (EST) |
> Great suggestion, and one that I completly overlooked. I will gather as much > material on this as I can, and see if I can find something that will do it, but > I don't know if that's possible. (Espcially with the Unix compilation. I > don't know much about the binary formats for executables, but I don't think the > ELF or a.out exe's will be compatible. At the very least you would need a > compiler that groks the Win32 binary spec, whatever that may be, and can output > a compatible binary. I would think, though, that this would require you to > compile it on a native platform, seeing as I don't think such a compiler (or > compiler back-end) has been written.) > > ActiveState does have a facility for making exe's out of Perl scrips, but I > don't know how mature, how stable, or how able to compile all of the > Perl universe that is. > > So for right now, I have nary an idea of how/if this can be accomplished, but I > will gather as much info as I can and find you some answers. > > Thanks for your suggestion, John, and I saw your QTk stuff on CPAN today. > Cool! : ) > > Thanks, > > Sean. > perl2exe does this on Win32 machines. I only tried the free version, and wouldn't buy the full package because it failed on Tk packages which was what I really wanted it for. Other scripts were converted fine, but I couldn't get it to work with Tk. It kept failing to find modules that were there. Haven't checked into it lately but the url is: http://www.perl2exe.com Barry > ----- End forwarded message ----- > **Majordomo list services provided by PANIX <URL:http://www.panix.com>** > **To Unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe phl" to majordomo@lists.pm.org** > **Majordomo list services provided by PANIX <URL:http://www.panix.com>** **To Unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe phl" to majordomo@lists.pm.org**
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