Re: PerlApp binary size

[pKai]

I'm using perlapp (and even more perlsvc) from AS PDK all the time at work.

A simple "Hello world!" (standalone program) will compile to short under 800K, since the exe will contain the perl interpreter in the form of the perl58.dll.

You can add (use) alot of pure perl modules in your program and the size of the resulting exe will not increase a lot (of about the size of the pm(s) these modules consist of).

The real increase comes when you include (a lot) of modules using compiled C code, i.e. attaching a module dll to your app.

You will quite easily break the 2MB with those (modules of the Win32 namespace are likely candidates to add most of the volume to your exe.)