Thanks Ron,
The issue is that these files are usually not additional libraries. They
are typically extra files for icons, config, data, and the like. That
said, they don't tend to have .pm or .pl extensions so maybe this could
work.
I'll keep it in mind as I try the explicit approach.
Regards,
Shawn.
On 17/12/2014 2:39, Ron W wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Shawn Laffan
<shawn.laf...@unsw.edu.au <mailto:shawn.laf...@unsw.edu.au>> wrote:
What I'm thinking of is some way for a PAR executable to detect if
extra files packed using -a are missing, and then unpack them.
I just had a thought for a work-around.
When pp script.pl <http://script.pl> is run, the script is "statically
scanned" for dependencies.
When pp -c script.pl <http://script.pl> is run, after the static scan,
the script is compiled (like perl -c script.pl <http://script.pl>). I
am thinking that %INC is then inspected for additional libraries.
So, my idea is, after identifying all the extra files to be included
with -a, go back to the main .pl file and add a BEGIN block that adds
those library names to %INC. Then run "pp -c main.pl <http://main.pl>"
- without any -a options - then verify the created executable runs
correctly.
As I said, I see this as a work-around.
A better solution would be for pp to save the names of all the files
included via -a just as it saves the ones it detects.
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