Re: [OT] Perl to C Converter?

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 23:50:26 GMT

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:14:58 -0400, Robert Gamble <rob_gamble99@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 22:19:50 +0000, Alan Connor wrote:
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>> By-the-way: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> says that a perl2C program
>> exists....
>
> There is something called perlcc, a google search will provide plenty of
> insight. I don't know if it will help you though, I just "compiled" a
> 31kB perl script into C and the result was 8MB of unreadable code.

Yow.

Not very well commented?

:-))

> Compiling the code resulted in a 3.5MB executable that dies immediately. I
> think this requires Perl installed and it appears to include the Perl
> source into the program. This program appears to be fairly new and
> probably has a long way to go before it is very useful.
>
> Rob Gamble

But this information is very useful.

Thank you, Rob. It may well be that an html2ps app in C is the answer
here and I have seen evidence that they exist.

There's one called a2ps, but it isn't being maintained and requires
netscape.

AC