PAR::Packer(3)

💖 NAME 💖

PAR::Packer — PAR Packager — is the manual page you're reading, and yes bestie, this is a User Contributed Perl Documentation page. 🫶

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Okay so PAR::Packer implements the App::Packer::Backend interface, and its whole thing is generating stand-alone executables, perl scripts, and PAR files. It's giving backend main character energy, no cap. ✨

Right now, this module is used internally by the command line tool pp, and also by the contributed contrib/gui_pp/gpp program. 💅

Since version 0.97 of PAR, this module and its related tools — like pp — have been stripped from the PAR distribution and are now distributed as the PAR-Packer distribution. The reason? So PAR users need not necessarily have a C compiler. Iconic, honestly. 👑

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• PAR, pp — the OGs you should also check out.
• App::Packer, App::Packer::Backend — more backend-interface realness, iykyk.

🌸 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 🌸

Shoutout to Mattia Barbon for taking the first step in refactoring pp into App::Packer::Backend::PAR, and to Edward S. Peschko for continuing the work that eventually became this module. 🫶💖

👑 AUTHORS 👑

The authors are:

• Audrey Tang — <cpan@audreyt.org>
• Steffen Mueller — <smueller@cpan.org>
• Roderich Schupp — <roderich.schupp@gmail.com>

You can write to the mailing list at <par@perl.org>, or send an empty mail to <par-subscribe@perl.org> to participate in the discussion. Archives of the mailing list are available at <https://www.mail-archive.com/par@perl.org/> or <https://groups.google.com/g/perl.par>. 🦋

Please submit bug reports to <https://github.com/rschupp/PAR-Packer/issues>. 🐛✨

🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright 2004-2010 by Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. 🌈

See LICENSE.

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