in reply to APPerl tutorial problem: default_script

Grepping for default_script points to line 1177 in Perl::Dist::APPerl, and that code suggests to me that the place of default_script you've chosen is right.

I also interpret the documentation in the way that you say - the perl.com program should invoke /zip/bin/hello in case no program is given on the command line.

Have you tried debugging it by giving it a non-existing script name as default_script? Or by adding debug messages to lib/Perl/Dist/APPerl.pm?

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Re^2: APPerl tutorial problem: default_script
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 23, 2023 at 02:23 UTC
      Have you tried debugging it by giving it a non-existing script name as default_script?
    Thanks for the suggestion. It dies with the same error if the file referenced by default_script exists or not! 
    Failed to find APPERL_DEFAULT_SCRIPT, is this an old APPerl binary? 
at /path/to/Perl/Dist/APPerl.pm line 1185.
    There is an another possible issue (warning) in the build process after adding this line to apperl-project.json per the previous step in the tutorial: 
    "zip_extra_files" : { "bin" : ["src/hello"] }
    These are the new output lines shown during the build process: 
    cd /path/to/apperl/hello/.apperl/o/my_nobuild_config/tmp/zip
zip -r /path/to/apperl/hello/.apperl/o/my_nobuild_config/tmp/perl.com lib bin
	zip warning: name not matched: lib
updating: bin/ (stored 0%)
  adding: bin/hello (deflated 1%)
    However running "/perl.com /zip/bin/hello" after the build does work as advertised. I'll try hacking at APPerl.pm next but it's about 1500+ lines of dense code...
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