That's funny,  I just discovered perl2exe today! It creates kind of
bloated .exe files, but it's pretty awesome overall.

We have to put some system stuff on these windows boxes to interface with
these lame DOS based systems we're trying to get data out of.  I had been
struggling to create usable Batch scripts, and failing miserably, when
someone pointed out that you can convert perl into windows executables
with perl2exe.

Now i can do all kinds of neat tricks like variable assignment, and for
loops even!

ECHO choose 1-9:
ECHO .
CHOICE c/1234567890
IF ERRORLEVEL 9 GOTO END

argh!

-Lkb

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Bram Cohen wrote:

> As another data point, I have an installer for windows which I made by
> writing my app in python, then using py2exe to make a windows executable
> out of it and then using the nullsoft installer to make an installer out
> of that. Kind of a rube goldberg contraption, but it works quite well.
>
> http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/
>
> http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/
>
> -Bram Cohen
>
>

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