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rschupp / PAR-Packer

(perl) Generate stand-alone executables, perl scripts and PAR files https://metacpan.org/pod/PAR::Packer
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Producing binaries for multiple architectures #91

Closed life00 closed 1 week ago

life00 commented 1 week ago

Hey so I am trying to figure out if its possible to produce lets say an aarch64 architecture binary from an x86_64 linux machine. I read the manual, but it does not seem to have an option to set the target architecture. I am hoping that maybe there could be some undocumented environment variable that I could set in order to specify the target architecture (instead of the current system architecture).

If there is no such environment variable then I suggest this to be a feature request. Thanks

rschupp commented 1 week ago

I am trying to figure out if its possible to produce lets say an aarch64 architecture binary from an x86_64 linux machine

@life00 TL;DR That's not possible and it's highly unlikely that such a feature will be implemented.

The --multiarch option of pp works only when packing a .par file. All it does is packing Perl modules into a sub directory named after the host architecture in the resulting zip file (instead of directly under the root). There's no mention of a "foreign" architecture here. Actually, I don't know what this was intended for. Maybe so you could pack the same script (into a .par) on different machines with different architectures and later somehow combine these .par files into a "fat" .par? But you'll need these different machines (each with an installation of perl and all modules required by your script) anyway.