----- Original Message ----- From: "Foo Ji-Haw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 9:36 PM Subject: Why is PerlApp's .exe package smaller than PAR?
> Hi all, > > I'm considering using PerlApp to package my application into an easily > distributable executable. Comparing PerlApp with PAR, I find that: > > 1. PerlApp's .exe file is usually smaller than PAR. It can even be less > than 1MB, which is almost impossible for PAR. > 2. PerlApp packages executables with less errors than PAR. PAR sometimes > report runtime errors with missing modules. > > Can someone please tell me why this is so (ok, I know PerlApp is a > professional packager. I just want to know what is going on)? > > Also, I may end up distributing more than 1 Perl application to the same > host. Is there a way for multiple distributions to share common > libraries (maybe core dlls) so that the file can be even smaller? I > don't mind if the libraries are thrown into windows/system32/. That's fine. > If you don't get satisfactory answers here, try the PAR mailing list. (See http://lists.cpan.org .) I think (not sure) that various aspects of PerlApp vs PAR have been covered previously on the PAR list - so you might find something in that list's archive. Cheers, Rob _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
