# $File: //member/autrijus/PAR/README $ $Author: autrijus $ # $Revision: #13 $ $Change: 2071 $ $DateTime: 2002/11/09 22:42:14 $ This is the README file for PAR, a toolkit to use perl scripts and modules stored inside compressed .par files. Please see the PAR.pm for typical uses, script/pp for bundling prerequisite modules of scripts into a PAR file (aka PerlApp or Perl2exe), and script/par.pl for running/making self-contained PAR executables. There is also a presentation "Introduction to PAR", available on the web as . * Installation PAR uses the standard perl module install process: cpansign -v # see SIGNATURE for details perl Makefile.PL make make test make install If your system has a C compiler, the 'pp' tool and a stand-alone binary version of par.pl will be compiled and installed automatically. You can generate self-executable binaries by: % pp -o foo.exe /home/test.pl Here are some recipes showing how to utilize pp to bundle source.pl with all its dependencies, on target machines with different expected settings: - Perl with PAR.pm and its dependencies installed: % pp -p source.pl # makes source.par % echo "use PAR 'source.par';" > packed.pl; % cat source.pl >> packed.pl; # makes packed.pl (now deploy 'source.par' and 'packed.pl' to target machine) $ perl packed.pl # run it - Perl with core module installed: % pp -p source.pl # makes source.par % par.pl -b -Opacked.pl source.par # makes packed.pl (now deploy 'packed.pl' to target machine) $ perl packed.pl # run it - Perl interpreter only, without core module: % pp -B -p source.pl # makes source.par % par.pl -B -Opacked.pl source.par # makes packed.pl (now deploy 'packed.pl' to target machine) $ perl packed.pl # run it - Clean setup % pp -Opacked.exe source.pl # makes packed.exe (now deploy 'packed.exe' to target machine) $ packed.exe # run it Note that if your perl was built as a shared library, the 'Clean setup' above will still need a separate perl5x.dll or libperl.so to function correctly. Please consult the documentation of 'pp' for more information. * Copyright Copyright 2002 by Autrijus Tang . All rights reserved. You can redistribute and/or modify this bundle under the same terms as Perl itself. See .