Creating an Executable

mizmaster22 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: Creating an Executable by raybies (Chaplain) on Jun 21, 2011 at 14:31 UTC
pp's probably the most mainstream way to get there, if that's what you're asking about. Is there some particular fear you have with using it? Have you had troubles with it?	[reply]
Re^2: Creating an Executable by mizmaster22 (Novice) on Jun 21, 2011 at 14:55 UTC
Well it seemed pretty simple. I am running a Windows machine so, I went to the command line and typed "cpan install pp". This installed the package. So, I went to the documentation and it said that all I needed to do was type "pp -o telnet telnet.pl" into the command prompt and it will make an executable file named telnet.exe out of my telnet.pl script. The error that I am receiving from that command is "C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin/pp: Input file telnet.pl was not found". Not exactly sure what it is wanting me to do. When I traverse to that location it is just the pp.pm file.	[reply]
Re^3: Creating an Executable by Anonymous Monk on Jun 21, 2011 at 14:58 UTC
$ ls -loanh telnet.pl ls: telnet.pl: No such file or directory $ pp telnet.pl C:\perl\site\5.12.2\bin/pp: Input file telnet.pl was not found	[reply]
Re^4: Creating an Executable by mizmaster22 (Novice) on Jun 21, 2011 at 15:08 UTC
Re^5: Creating an Executable by Anonymous Monk on Jun 21, 2011 at 15:38 UTC
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Re: Creating an Executable by biohisham (Priest) on Jun 22, 2011 at 19:44 UTC
in addition to the Par Packager you have perl2exe that can can enable builduing executables as well, Read about it here, and since you are on Windows, there is this commercial PDK utility from ActiveState that you may find interesting... David R. Gergen said "We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal." and I am a two y.o. monk today :D, June,12th, 2011...	[reply] [d/l]


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