I have used pp PAR::Packer to build a standalone exe file to run on a Windows machine.
Can somebody explain how to build a Perl script with all the dependent packages from this Windows machine to create a standalone file to be run on a Linux machine?
Generating a binary that runs on a Linux machine starting from a Windows machine is not possible.
You use the pp (from PAR-Packer) command probably quite in the same way as you did in Windows
pp -S -M Some::Module -M Some::Other::Module -o youBinary.bin Script1.pl Script2.pl ScriptN.pl
Things to note:
-M flag might be necessary because sometimes the automatic finding of dependencies may not work (some of them are loaded dynamically at runtime so it's a bit trial and error until you get the good combination). Take special care when you see warnings like these when executing pp:Use of runtime loader module Module::Runtime detected. Results of static scanning may be incomplete.
Use of runtime loader module Module::Implementation detected. Results of static scanning may be incomplete.
The posibility to pack several scripts into one binary. You can them create different symbolic links to that binary to execute the different scripts.
When a single input program is specified, the resulting executable will behave identically as that program. However, when multiple programs are packaged, the produced executable will run the one that has the same basename as $0 (i.e. the filename used to invoke it). If nothing matches, it dies with the error "Can't open perl script "$0"
Very convenient from time to time.
Be aware also of creating the binary on a machine with an "older" libc. If you do this on a bleeding edge linux, you will need a bleeding edge linux to run it too, making it less portable.
Note that even if your perl was built with a shared library, the 'Stand-alone executable' above will not need a separate perl5x.dll or libperl.so to function correctly. But even in this case, the underlying system libraries such as libc must be compatible between the host and target machines.
Enjoy your standalone Perl binary.
EDIT
Generating a binary that runs on a Linux machine starting from a Windows machine is not possible.
The Perl Packager scripts says that it can create executable that runs in same OS. Can I use it to create Win32 binary with linux machine? Or what should I use to create Win32 executable binary on linux from my script?
It is not possible to create stand-alone binaries for different platform than what you are currently running on. This is a generally hard problem since you would have to cross-compile all XS modules and perl itself. Not nice.
For example, if you would like to develop an application on Linux and ship it for both Linux/x86 and Win32/x86, it works well to set up a Virtual Machine with a Windows (XP or 2000 or whatever) and a Perl installation. On that machine, use PAR/pp to package your application for Win32.
On what platforms can I run PAR? On what platforms will the resulting executable run?
Win32 (95/98/ME/NT4/2K/XP), FreeBSD, Linux, AIX, Solaris, Darwin and Cygwin.
The resulting executable will run on any platforms that supports the binary format of the generating platform.