Single Packaged Shell?

[John Westbrook <john dot westbrook at gmail dot com>]

I use cygwin for data analysis purposes for my employer. Up to this
point, I have produced reports as my unit of output. However, my
employer now wants to export my home-grown toolset to end users, which
makes me an application vendor, not a data analyst.

Aside from my anxiety over this sudden outbreak of scope creep (truly
a disease), I am struggling to find out how to distribute a
user-friendly version of my toolset to users who think that perl
scripts grow inside shell scripts in the ocean.

I have heard that you can compile perl code into c code, so I was
wondering if anything similar exists for shell scripts or even cygwin
itself. Ideally I would like to distribute an executable that uses a
shell script as its entry point, but does not require a cygwin
installation on the host.

If there is some way to package the few standard programs I need
(bash, perl, unzip, etc.) with my custom scripts, that would be
acceptable as well. It cannot by too hackish, but I could do a
reasonable amount of customization, as I am actually a programmer in
disguise.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

John Westbrook

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