Re: Some beginner's questions + PAR

[Kevin Moore <Kevin Moore evonetics com>]

Daniel Kasak wrote:
> While I'm at it, are there any gotchas ( with Perl GTK2 ) I should be 
> aware of when moving this stuff to Windows? I'm attemting the initial 
> development under Linux, but will have to deploy on Windows for now.

Don't underestimate the difficulty of deploying on Windows.  The PAR
module and perl2exe don't work with Gtk2-Perl, and there are a lot of
dependencies, so you're going to have to install quite a bit on the
client machine to get your script to run (thanks to Wayne Keenan there
are binaries - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wayne.keenan/gtk).  The cd
image I made to deploy a small script was 29 MB in size, and it isn't
tolerant to things like already having part of the dependencies
installed in an unexpected place.

There aren't any pre-built Gtk2::GladeXML binaries for Windows; I was
able to build it and get it to "sort-of" work about 6 months ago, but
haven't tried lately.

Maybe somebody on this list can comment on what gtk2-perl does
differently compared with other perl modules that PAR doesn't seem to
like.  I and one other person have posted to the PAR mailing list, but
there were no responses.  See

http://www.mail-archive.com/par perl org/msg01144.html

and

http://www.mail-archive.com/par perl org/msg01188.html

Regards,

Kevin Moore