zipperlapp - Make an executable perl script bundle using zip archive

This program bundles several Perl module files and wraps them as an "executable" zip archive. An output file can be invoked as a Perl script, or (if a source file contains a #! line) as a directly executable command. Also, it can be handled by (almost every) zip archiver as an "sfx" file.

Inside Perl scripts, all files contained in the archive is put in the top of the searched library set. The program can simply use use or require statements to load the contained modules, without modifying the @INC variable.

Run zipperlapp --help or perldoc zipperlapp for usage.

Content of the source package / Git repository

The script zipperlapp is a standalone portable binary Perl script packed by this tool itself. Its source code is zipperlapp.pl. See Makefile for how to regenerate the packed file.

AUTHOR/COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2019-2025 Yutaka OIWA yutaka@oiwa.jp.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

As a special exception to the Apache License, outputs of this software, which contain a code snippet copied from this software, may be used and distributed under terms of your choice, so long as the sole purpose of these works is not redistributing the code snippet, this software, or modified works of those. The "AS-IS BASIS" clause above still applies in these cases.

(In short, you can freely use this software to package YOUR software and the Apache License will not apply for YOURS.)