Re: Is there any provision to run perl scripts without installing perl?

[Anonymous Monk]

Like it or not, the runtime environment of Perl (and all of the libraries that may be directly or indirectly referenced by your code) must be installed on the target computer. Mechanisms for bundling this into a self-contained (exe...) single file do exist. But the fact remains: it must execute. Therefore, it must be executable.

Remember that systems like Windows install a tremendous number of runtime environment libraries whether you want them there or not, precisely so that scripts and so-forth can run on the computer without further installation-work from you. (Ignoring the obvious "virus and malware" threads, please...)