[Radiance-general] Application of Radiance Perl scripts on Windows

[Rob Guglielmetti]

The PAR package actually wraps an entire copy of the Perl interpreter around each and every Perl script, which is a ridiculous waste of space and a burden on load/run times. If you have Perl and Radiance installed properly you can call perl scripts on Windows (Widows and GitBash shells) just the same as on any other platform. The Radiance-related perl scripts should be installed with all the other Radiance executables, and that location should be in your system PATH. Perl needs to be installed and configured to be the “default application”, or whatever the Windows jargon is, for perl scripts. Once these two things are done, you can call the name of the perl script (e.g. genBSDF.pl) and it will work, from any location. 

- Rob


> On Feb 27, 2016, at 5:20 PM, Alireza Hashemloo <alireh at uw.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a question/request with regards to the application of Radiance Perl scripts on Windows:
> 
> 
> I had previously managed to package all Perl scripts in the Radiance/bin directory via the PAR package for Perl so that there would be an executable version (.exe) per each .pl format. The reason for such transformation is the significant impact that calling a ".exe" file has on the overall workflow using Radiance on Windows in comparison with having to call the Perl interpreter and passing the given script's path (Radiance/bin/<filename>.pl) every time that a single Perl script has to be used on the Windows command line (In particular, Git Bash). However, recently, there has been changes and I have not managed to use the open-source PAR package for Perl to package the Radiance perl scripts into .exe format.
> 
> - I was wondering if it is possible to release a ".exe" file for each Radiance Perl script (corresponding  with the release of each update to a script)?
> 
> - Otherwise, I would appreciate if you could guide me on alternative solutions to transform Perl scripts to .exe files on Windows. 
> 
> (Other than the open-source PAR package, I have used a trial version of the commercial Active State Perl Development Kit including PerlApp that allows you to make executable file for perl scripts. However, once the trial period is over, the generated .exe files by the application will no longer work.)
> 
> Thank you very much,
> Alireza
> 
> 
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