[Gllug] Application development across all platforms

[Simon Stewart]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 11:02:44AM -0000, Richard Cottrill wrote:

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> In the future you could try to use the Tk modules for PERL to code stand
> alone GUI. To run this at the moment you'll need PERL to be installed on all
> of the clients. There are alpha versions of a PERL compiler though that
> would allow native executables to be created for almost anything. I don't
> know how quickly the compiler will become useful though.

I've written a couple of apps in perl and used perl2exe to convert
them into a Win32 executable. Seems to work quite well, though I
wasn't exactly pushing the envelope. I'd suspect that eval might not
work as expected, if at all, though.

Cheers,

Simon

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