Features
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[edit] Features
The PAR Toolkit comes with several modules and utilities, which work together to make cross-platform packaging and deployment a breeze.
[edit] pp - Perl Packager
- Turn your Perl programs into ready-to-run executables
- Pack scripts and required libraries with a binary loader that runs the script
- Build dependent applications, which require an existing Perl installation on the target computer
- Build freestanding applications, which will run on a target computer that does not have Perl installed
- Optionally obfuscate your programs using InputFilters
- Tested on Windows, *BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Cygwin, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, OS/2...
- Put PAR files into @INC to avoid version conflicts
- Works with remote URL as well as local files
- Supports XS modules and DATA sections
[edit] par.pl - Make and run Perl Archives
- Turns CPAN module distributions into PAR distributions
- Install, uninstall, signs and verifies PAR distributions
- Runs scripts inside PAR files, generated by "pp -p"
[edit] parl - Binary PAR Loader
- Freestanding version of par.pl, with a built-in Perl interpreter!
- Ideal for deployment on machines without an existing Perl installation
- Runs PAR files as well as Perl programs
[edit] tkpp - Graphical Perl Packager
- Uses Tk.pm to present an user-friendly GUI
- Supports most of pp's options
- Runs on multiple platforms
The flesh was willing but the grass was wet.
--tsee 09:52, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
