Re: statically linked Strawberry Perl for use with PerlApp?

From: "Robert Eden" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: statically linked Strawberry Perl for use with PerlApp?


> On 6/23/2014 5:47 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>> -----Original Message----- From: Robert Eden
>>
>>> Is there any documentation on compiling my own version of Strawberry?  I 
>>> don't see any source code mentioned on the web page.
>>
>> Well - you could just build your own perl from source using (say) the 
>> compiler and dmake that shipped with Strawberry.
>>
>> You just grab the official perl 5.20.0 source, put your strawberry/c/bin 
>> folder at the beginning of the PATH, edit the (largely self-documenting) 
>> win32/makefile.mk appropriately, then cd to that win32 folder and run:
>> dmake
>> dmake test
>> dmake install
>
> That should work!  I'll let the list know how it goes (and if it works 
> with PerlApp)
>
> Robert
>


I knew that PDK programs require ActivePerl. Hopefully I am not right, but 
if I am, StrawberryPerl may need to pretend it is ActivePerl, and I don't 
know if this is legal.

I know that some newer versions of ActivePerl can't work with older versions 
of PDK, but a PDK upgrade is required, so there are some restrictions, 
probably for commercial reasons.

In some cases other solutions than perlapp (PAR or perl2exe) are simply not 
working. If is the case of XMLTV also, writing on ActivePerl mailing list 
and asking for adding some modules and libs in ActivePerl can be a solution, 
at least for the future.

Octavian