As I mentioned on p5p earlier I am working on a low-tech way of bundling script + modules into one executable. e.g. perl -MSerial ../foo > foo # produce one script which has all perl code in perl foo # just like ../foo but no @INC access scipt2c foo # produces foo.exe foo.exe # just like ../foo but no perl needed Remaining snag is how to convert ..../Tk.so etc. into non-shared objects so that foo.exe is truely self contained. foo.exe is straight forward embedded perl executable with a big char script[] = "................."; and does argv[1] = "-e"; argv[2] = script; It mostly works (Solaris/Linux). There are two potential module names - one for what is 'Serial' above which does equivalent job to -MO=... i.e. arranges for END/CHECK block to save the things that %INC shows we need. The other is the runtime module which does *CORE::GLOBAL::require = \&reload; and supplies eval's the text of the "file". The name 'Serial' was just because it was originally going to serialized the execution. That turned out to be harder than I thought so now it just builds a hash of the file contents instead - but that makes name misleading (and it was not that good to start with). The other module's working name is 'Reload'. -- Nick Ing-Simmons
