Is there anyway to compile Perl code to an executable?
One option is PAR – The Perl Archiver, which prepares an .exe that contains all your code, ready to run. This way is is easier to deploy on platforms that don’t have perl5, some of the Perl modules or extensions, or certain C libraries. Alternatively, if you want to compile Perl code into machine code, then a partial solution was done by perlcc and the C:: namespace on CPAN. Note that it still includes the entire Perl run time (to handle string eval etc.), so it creates bloated executables.
