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I want to create Perl script executable exe for distributions for enterprise use. For security and to stop misuse. I found many outdated post about it. But today I don't know it is similar or not!

Question is: Which tool shall I use to create executables?

I used previously following:

PAR::Packer - Most favorite choice of mine. But its just packer. Source code can be extracted using any extraction tool like 7zip, winzip.

perl2exe - provides some sort of encryption. But painful sometimes

PerlApp - comes with PDK

perlcc - Its outdated

waghso
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    Nothing has changed. All current packaging solutions are reversible. Of course anything you give out can be reverse engineered. – tjd May 30 '14 at 11:36
  • @tjd do you know how to extract code from perl2exe? – waghso May 30 '14 at 11:58
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    I just searched Google for "perl2exe" and there's a lovely tutorial sitting right on the 1st page. Bonus: Now you too know! – tjd May 30 '14 at 12:55
  • @tjd those posts are outdated. I already tried for it. – waghso May 31 '14 at 06:51

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If security is your main concern, run the code on a server as a service. Write a client to connect to the service (might be a web client) and distribute it to users. Or switch to a compiled language.

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  • My code is going to be a part of the software(GUI based). To run the code on server is good option. But not applicable for my problem. – waghso May 30 '14 at 11:15