Is it possible to bundle Perl with a macOS application?

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I have several Cocoa applications that use Perl frameworks to perform some actions. Apple has announced that it will remove Perl, Ruby & PHP installations from future macOS versions, so I'm looking for a solution to this problem.

Making customers install Perl manually seems like madness, so are there any ways of bundling Perl or creating an executable for macOS?

I know that this is possible on Windows, but haven't been able to find anything on the Mac.

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Slic3r uses Par::Packer to bundle and ship a clickable app.

Check out their build script for MacOX. They copy perl into their application bundle. I haven't really dug into how this works, but it is pretty interesting and it works well from the end-user standpoint.

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