PAR::Intro - Introduction to Perl Archive Toolkit


NAME

PAR::Intro - Introduction to Perl Archive Toolkit


SYNOPSIS

# This is a presentation, not a module.

Note that a more extensive tutorial is now available online as http://aut.dyndns.org/par-tutorial/ and has superceded materials in this introduction.


DESCRIPTION

What is PAR (Perl Archive Toolkit)?

Getting Started

Command-line Tools

Making Binary Executables

The Anatomy of a PAR file

Derived Modules

Apache::PAR Demo

Future Development

Overview of PAR.pm's Implementation

Code References in @INC

Source Filtering without Filter::* Modules

Faking the <DATA> Handle

Overriding DynaLoader::bootstrap

Anatomy of a Self-Contained PAR executable

Self-Bootstrapping Tricks


SEE ALSO

http://www.autrijus.org/par-tutorial/

http://www.autrijus.org/par-intro/ (English version)

http://www.autrijus.org/par-intro.zh/ (Chinese version)

PAR, pp, par.pl, parl

the ex::lib::zip manpage, the Acme::use::strict::with::pride manpage

the App::Packer manpage, the Apache::PAR manpage, the CPANPLUS manpage, the Module::Install manpage


AUTHORS

Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>

http://par.perl.org/ is the official PAR website. 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.

Please submit bug reports to <bug-par@rt.cpan.org>.


COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2002, 2003 by Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>.

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

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

 PAR::Intro - Introduction to Perl Archive Toolkit