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On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:09 AM, J. Peng <peng.kyo@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 12:58 PM, <itshardtogetone@hotmail.com> wrote: > > What must I do to my perl script so that my friends can run my perl script from their computer, using windows as the operating system, without having to install perl into their system. > > Sorry to tell you, it's impossible. > Trying to compile perl scripts is always a bad idea. snip No, trying to hide your code is bad (since it can almost always be recovered). Creating a PAR executable is very useful. Not everyone has, or wants to install, Perl. Being able to provide a single file (which contains the perl interpreter, your script, and all of the dependent modules) to those users is wonderful. -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read.Thread Previous