On approximately 8/1/2004 6:58 PM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of prichcre@columbus.rr.com:
>  Randy wrote:
>  
>  
> >Probably the safest option you have is to compile Perl
> >yourself, either with gcc or with the free version of VC++ 7;
>  
>  
>  I was thinking maybe just get the VC++ compiler and compile my "hello world"
>  program with it, using the perl58 lib shipped with the perl install. I'm not
>  tied to the gcc compiler. So, I installed the beta (free) version of Visual
>  Studio, but I think it would take me many hours just to get the point where
>  I can even TRY to compile my 2-line-"hello
>  world"-perl-source-converted-to-C-code program. I thought I'd find a button
>  that said "Compile", but no such luck. A lot of the Help is not even
>  available yet, so I'm pretty much in the dark.
>  
>  BTW, another solution I considered was the AcitveState Perl Developers Kit,
>  which has a program called PerlApp. It worked OK, but the executable for the
>  "hello world" was 500K!! Probably just as well; I'd hard pressed to justify
>  the $ for the PDK just to do this :)
>  
>  Thanks to you and Rob for your advice, but I think I'll abandon this for
>  now. Just thought it might be interesting to be able to send some simple
>  perl programs to others who don't have perl installed on their computer.
>  
>  Phil

Well, you might consider PAR for sending Perl programs to non-perl 
computers.  But still, if they are few-liners, the overhead is probably 
significant.  But if the program really does something they want to do, 
it would probably be worth it to them.

-- 
Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/
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