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.IX Title "PAR::Packer 3"
.TH PAR::Packer 3 2024-03-15 "perl v5.38.2" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH NAME
PAR::Packer \- PAR Packager
.SH DESCRIPTION
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
This module implements the \fBApp::Packer::Backend\fR interface, for generating
stand-alone executables, perl scripts and PAR files.
.PP
Currently, this module is used by the command line tool \fBpp\fR internally, as
well as by the contributed \fIcontrib/gui_pp/gpp\fR program.
.PP
Since version 0.97 of PAR, this module and its related tools such as \f(CW\*(C`pp\*(C'\fR
have been stripped from the PAR distribution and are now distributed as
the \f(CW\*(C`PAR\-Packer\*(C'\fR distribution so that PAR users need not necessarily
have a C compiler.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
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PAR, pp
.PP
App::Packer, App::Packer::Backend
.SH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Mattia Barbon for taking the first step in refactoring \fBpp\fR into
\&\fBApp::Packer::Backend::PAR\fR, and Edward S. Peschko for continuing
the work that eventually became this module.
.SH AUTHORS
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Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>
.PP
Steffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org>
.PP
Roderich Schupp <roderich.schupp@gmail.com>
.PP
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>.
.PP
Please submit bug reports to <https://github.com/rschupp/PAR\-Packer/issues>.
.SH COPYRIGHT
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT"
Copyright 2004\-2010 by Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>.
.PP
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
.PP
See \fILICENSE\fR.