Perl Dev Kit will give you back your weekends.
— Foo Ji-Haw , NexLabs Pte Ltd
I found PerlApp from Activestate. It's AWESOME. I've compiled binaries for Windows and Linux so far, and it completely ROCKS. It has both a GUI and CLI, and the GUI exact same Look and Feel on Windows and Linux, and it just works.
— Justin Eagleson , Ancillary Buzz
We use PDK to provide our customers with critical network management applications written in Perl. With the new dynamically-linked runtime libraries, we can enhance these applications with functionality from key modules - and even provide smaller exes. I highly recommend PDK 7.0 to any Perl developer.
— Mike Gent , Virtual Expanse Innovations
Work bought me the PDK. All I can say is wow, is that cool or what. It allows me take perl scripts I design to make administration tasks easier and turn them into executables for use elsewhere without installing perl on the target computer. I can make system tray applications, system services, and standalone executables. I am going to have a lot of fun with this.
— Marzhill Musings , (Blog Posting)
I use Perl Dev Kit from ActiveState to develop my Perl executables. I can't live without it. I combine Perl, Perl Dev Kit and Tk or Win32::GUI to develop VB-like apps, and use PerlTray to develop executables that run as tray applications in MS Windows. It also facilitates the creation of MSI setup modules in Perl as well as the creation of NT services in Perl. Very, very nice. As I said - very handy - and I cannot live without it.
— Jonathan Hughes, Tech Support Specialist , Goodyear South Africa
Perl is the best, and now that it can create executables for Windows makes the language complete in my opinion.
— Ketema Harris, Technology Consultant , TEMA Web Design & Consulting
It was the fine folks at ActiveState with their Perl Dev Kit that really made it possible for us to release on Windows with their PerlApp (for making Perl-based .exe files) and PerlSvc (for making Perl-based Windows Services).
— Dean Blackketter , Slim Devices
I thought PerlApp allowed for much easier deployment than Java, easier coding than C, and wider support than Delphi.
— Charles Oppenheimer, CEO , Recursive Technology LLC
I installed PDK this morning. Way cool! The perlapp function let me compile a Tk script into a working .exe file. The other thing I notice is the exe files it creates are a lot smaller. I'm sold, never want to lose this one!
— Mike Armitage, Systems Engineer , Verizon
Perl is a great language to get stuff done swiftly and powerfully. ActivePerl and the Perl Dev Kit are stupendous products.
— Roger Voss, Technology Integration Senior Developer , Internet Enrollment Solutions
Perl Dev Kit is the best - and I do mean best - software I have ever used! It simply compares to nothing else. THANK YOU!!
— Bill Kambouroglou, Network Implementation Design and Programming , IBM
I love PerlApp. It does just what I've needed for a long time!
— Timothy M. Valdez, UI Branch Campus Webmaster/ITS Web Developer , University of Idaho
I've used PDK since the 1.0 release and love the ability to create standalone ActiveX controls. We run most of our automated functions using Perl. I can better manage the distribution of standalone executables on our critical HP-UX servers, while maintaining the core
distribution on just one server.
— Dave Warner, Sr. Applications Developer/DBA , Northrop Grumann IT Computing Systems
This is a great product. The Debugger alone is worth the price I paid, not to mention the other great tools.
— Shawn Scott, Network Systems Engineer/Systems Integrator , Broadview Networks Inc.
Thanks for a great product.... I've owned all the versions. You folks are doing a marvelous job.
— Jeff Wood, Senior Developer/Solutions Architect , Donobi, Inc.
GREAT PRODUCT! It saves me a ton of time at work.
— Matt Hicks, IT PSS Systems Management , SAP America, Inc.
We're adopting Perl as our scripting language of choice because of its crossplatform portability, and PDK's functionality is a god-send. I perform attack and penetration tests on our servers and the smaller footprint of the new PerlApp executables is very important.
— Matt Wagenknecht, Internet Security Engineer , Quantum Corp
I love the Perl language. It makes seemingly impossible and arduous tasks easy and fun. ActivePerl and the Perl Dev Kit make it even easier. The work that ActiveState is doing is absolutely brilliant. The ease of installation of the distribution, packages and the documentation smooth the way when convincing people that Perl is the right tool for the job. I like to step carefully through code when testing and the Dev Kit debugger makes that quite easy.
— Gerry Quinlan , Perl Developer