my $module = $^O =~ /MSWin32/ ? "Win32::Foo" : "Unix::Bar"; # /win/ will make Darwin (OSX) users unhappy :-) eval "use $module" or die "$module didn't return a true value"; die $@ if $@; #### BEGIN{ if ($^O =~ /MSWin32/) { require Win32::Foo; Win32::Foo->import(); } else { require Unix::Bar; Unix::Bar->import(); }; }; #### use UNIVERSAL::require; my $module = $^O =~ /MSWin32/ ? "Win32::Foo" : "Unix::Bar"; $module->require; $module->import(1,2,3); #### BEGIN { my $module = $^O =~ /MSWin32/ ? "Win32::Foo" : "Unix::Bar"; my $file = $module . ".pm"; $file =~ s!::!/!g; require $file or die "$file didn't return a true value"; $module->import(); };