five9media http://five9media.com Reliable Technology To Share Information Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:20:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Embedded Linux and RFID for Healthcare http://five9media.com/2011/03/21/embedded-linux-and-rfid-for-healthcare/ http://five9media.com/2011/03/21/embedded-linux-and-rfid-for-healthcare/#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:52:25 +0000 walterc http://five9media.com/?p=125 content here

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This is where PAR, the Perl Archive Toolkit comes in! Using this cross platform Packaging and Deployment tool you can build Windows executables from your scripts. This is great, but how do you install and use this tool with ActivePerl on Windows? PAR and PAR::Packer are not included with ActivePerl, so you need to install them using the Perl Package Manager. You can install PAR itself from the ActiveState repository (which you should), but this will not install the PAR::Packer tool. In order to do this from within the Perl Package Manager use the following steps:

  1. Select Edit -> Preferences Under Repository Tab -> Add Repository -> Suggested: bribes :: Bribes de Perl
  2. Now Search for PAR-Packer -> Mark for Install
  3. Run Marked Actions

This will install all off the required files for you to use the pp tool from the command line. Once installed simply issue the following command:

pp -o foo.exe foo.pl

This will take your script including any required modules and create an executable archive that you can now distribute to any Windows system or user without the requirement of needing Perl installed!

This process has been verified on ActivePerl 5.8 and 5.10.

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