[lug] Programming

[Nick Golder]

On 03-02-21 19:15 -0500, the infamous Joseph McDonald uttered:
> > Hello,
> >   I need to write a app for windoz. I have only used perl
> > on a Unix/Linux platform before. I don't want to use perl
> > to make the windoz app, do to the lack to a perl interpretor 
> > on most windoz boxen.
> >   So, i have been fooling around with Visual Basic...
> > This language is not nearly as elegant as PERL, and
> > some of the concepts just seem like allot of work compared
> > to the the same concept in PERL. So I was thinking of
> > maybe trying Visual C++. I have seen allot of C code
> > and, it looks easier and more logical. 
> >  To get to the point, I have already spent a week playing with VB
> > and I don't want to waste anymore time learning VB if I can
> > come further and faster using visual C++.... So for someone
> > with mostly just PERL exp. , what would be the most similar 
> > language in concepts and syntax (to PERL), that will allow me to make
> > GUI apps for windoz.
> 
> I think, if you wrote you app in Win32 perl you could 
> simply statically compile it and negate the need for a 
> perl interpretor on each of the clients. I haven't done
> that personally (I'm strictly a unix admin) but sounds
> like it may be a viable solution. Checkout the manpage
> for perlcc. I have done that for unix systems that didn't
> have perl installed.
> 
> 	--joey

I have done something similar in that I used perlcc to generate C code
and compiled that.  I had to tweak the C code to resolve a performance
issue but otherwise, it worked great.

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-Nick Golder
http://www.hiveportal.net