P5-par

Jul 20, 2023

Perl Archive Toolkit

The PAR Toolkit is a cross between Java’s JAR and Perl2EXE; It makes cross-platform packaging and deployment a breeze for Perl programmers.

Notable features include

  • Turn your Perl programs into ready-to-run executables
  • Pack scripts and required libraries with a binary loader
  • Put PAR files into @INC to avoid version conflicts
  • Works with remote URL as well as local files
  • Supports XS modules and DATA sections
  • Turns CPAN module distributions into PAR distributions
  • Install, uninstall, signs and verifies PAR distributions
  • Runs scripts inside PAR files, generated by “pp -p”


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