Installation package

[ofzer]

Hi.
I lastly finished writing a perl application.
The application uses several modules like tk etc ...

Im now willing to send this application abroad.
The users which going to use this perl application have already installed perl on their computer.
However , the other moduls are not installed on users computers.

I would like to built this installation script which will install the modules automatically and not by entering PPM/CPAN.

my main goal is to send this application and not get "CANNOT FIND ... @INC" when I loading the perl application.

I downloaded the modules manually but I dont really know how to hook them all into one installation script .

thank you very much
Ido

[thurban]

You can write a small batch file like the one below

REM Modules to be installed by ppm:
@echo off
echo Installing Perl modules ...
echo.
 
echo Installing Perl module directly from PPM
call ppm install Config-IniFiles
 
echo Installing Perl module directly from Harddisk
call ppm install C:\perl_modules\Tk-Date.ppd
 
echo Installing Perl module directly from external webpage
call ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackages/IO-Socket-SSL.ppd
 
 
 

[geek491]

Hi.
I lastly finished writing a perl application.
The application uses several modules like tk etc ...

Im now willing to send this application abroad.
The users which going to use this perl application have already installed perl on their computer.
However , the other moduls are not installed on users computers.

I would like to built this installation script which will install the modules automatically and not by entering PPM/CPAN.

my main goal is to send this application and not get "CANNOT FIND ... @INC" when I loading the perl application.

I downloaded the modules manually but I dont really know how to hook them all into one installation script .

thank you very much
Ido

A Great thought is to convert your application into an executable and ship it off to your clients. Advantage of this is that your clients dont even need to have perl installed on their machines.

to do this install PAR module.

ppm> install PAR

once installed you can create executable files by this command

pp -o output.exe input.pl

make sure if u are using downloaded modules in ur script then u are using the use command.Eg: if u are using DBD:Oracle which is a downloaded module then your perl script must have the line

use DBD::Oracle.
......
......

Rest should be fine. The exe size is little big but you can get an executable that will run on any machine.

Let me know how it helped to geek491@yahoo.c o.in