Re: Emacs vista build failures

[Sean O'Rourke]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:

> Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2008-07-22 16:47 +0200, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
>>
>>> David Kastrup wrote:
>>>> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> David Kastrup wrote:
>>>>>> Can you imagine how many mandays get wasted on utterly appalling
>>>>>> workarounds like that?  And of course, this just works on one version of
>>>>>> cmd.exe, and might break on another.
>>>>> Why don't you use perl for example instead?
>>>> Chicken and egg.  Installation scripts have to rely on what is there.
>>> But you can build exectutable from perl scripts, or is not that
>>> possibility there any more?
>>
>> If you're referring to perlcc, that was indeed removed from Perl 5.10.
>
> I believe there are still a commercial alternative for it.

PAR's pp[1] utility does this, I believe, and is free.

Sean

[1] http://search.cpan.org/~smueller/PAR-Packer-0.980/lib/pp.pm