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[acidhoss]

Ok, I just downloaded IndigoSTAR's Perl2Exe program, on account of I am learning Perl Tk and want to turn my scripts into executables. However, every time I even run p2exe, it crashes my computer to the point where I need to restart it. Any suggestions? Better ideas for a perl to exe program? Thanks in advance.

[Tim Greer]

I just use (in Linux of FreeBSD):

perlcc scriptname -o outputfilename

To compile Perl scripts. I've never tried anything else and never had to (though there's options you may use, but it's just that simple).

[acidhoss]

Do you know of anything on a windows platform?

[Tim Greer]

Originally posted by acidhoss
Do you know of anything on a windows platform?

I don't. I don't code for Windows anymore and hope never to have to again. Maybe ActiveState's Perl dist will have perlcc, maybe what you have now does? I don't know, but if I cared to compile code, I'd code in C/C++ anyway. Sorry.

[acidhoss]

Ah, yes, I see. Winblows can do just that quite often, but I was just trying to ease my learning of C++ by transferring knowledge of creating GUI's in perl to C++. Makes distribution a hell of a lot easier, especially when you want to run a perl script and don't have perl installed. Well thank you for the help, I do appreciate it

[Tim Greer]

No problem. Sorry I wasn't able to offer any help. I can tell you though, the Perl to C compiler.code creation is utterly not meant to make readable code.

[acidhoss]

Ahhhh, I see. Well, I'll just have to live with scripts, and learn C++.