my $fh = IO::File->new_tmpfile;
    $member->extractToFileHandle($fh);
    seek($fh, 0, 0);
    return $fh;

It looks like Mattia Barbon is working on a similar project that he is calling App::Packer. App::Packer packs perl scripts and all of their dependencies inside an executable. [cpan.org]

Have you two discussed strategies or details? Both projects are under very active development with each one having multiple releases to CPAN in the last week, sometimes more than one a day.

-- tex

-- tex

Of course it stores source code instead of bytecode (but storing bytecode is entirely possible with ByteLoader.pm), which makes it more like perl2exe or perlapp, but nevertheless it's a compelling alternative to those three.