---
name: "PAR::Packer"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "perl-par-packer"
version: "1.064-6"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/PAR::Packer"
---

# PAR::Packer(3pm)

PAR Packager

## NAME

PAR::Packer - PAR Packager

## DESCRIPTION

This module implements the **App::Packer::Backend** interface, for generating stand-alone executables, perl scripts and PAR files.

Currently, this module is used by the command line tool **pp** internally, as well as by the contributed *contrib/gui\_pp/gpp* program.

Since version 0.97 of PAR, this module and its related tools such as `"pp"` have been stripped from the PAR distribution and are now distributed as the `"PAR-Packer"` distribution so that PAR users need not necessarily have a C compiler.

## SEE ALSO

PAR, pp

App::Packer, App::Packer::Backend

## ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Mattia Barbon for taking the first step in refactoring **pp** into **App::Packer::Backend::PAR**, and Edward S. Peschko for continuing the work that eventually became this module.

## AUTHORS

Audrey Tang \<cpan@audreyt.org\>

Steffen Mueller \<smueller@cpan.org\>

Roderich Schupp \<roderich.schupp@gmail.com\>

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\>.

Please submit bug reports to \<https://github.com/rschupp/PAR-Packer/issues\>.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2004-2010 by Audrey Tang \<cpan@audreyt.org\>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See *LICENSE*.