Thanks for the clarification. Ying
From: Roderich Schupp [mailto:roderich.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 2:41 PM To: Hou, Ying Cc: par@perl.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: cross platform question for PAR::Packer On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 7:50 PM, Hou, Ying <ying....@va.gov<mailto:ying....@va.gov>> wrote: Thanks for your great help and I was able to install PAR::Packer which generate a standalone binary on Windows. Since the binary is generated on Windows, it can only run on Windows where no Perl was installed. Although it says “Cross platform”, it doesn’t mean the binary generated on Windows can be run on Linux/Unix. Is it correct? Yes. Forget the "cross platform" stuff - it probably refers to the fact that a .par archive may contain XS Perl modules for different architectures or operating systems. But there's no support to build such a "fat" archive and the executables created by pp are architecture or OS specific in any case. So in short: if you want to generate binaries for Windows and Linux, you must build them twice. Which also means that you first must have all the modules that your script needs in both worlds as well as PAR::Packer itself. Cheers, Roderich
