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Thanx, but Devel::CheckLib is not a standard library
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Re^7: standard library to return system paths
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 07, 2016 at 07:42 UTC

    You can install it from CPAN or bundle it with your application/distribution.

    Other than that, there is no standard library for such stuff. That's what CPAN is for.

      Hi,

      be aware there is a difference between the system library path and the perl module path.

      Perl always knows where it's modules are installed.

      On your shell:

      perl -V

      The output on linux could look like this:

      @INC: /usr/lib/perl5/... /usr/lib64/perl5/...

      If you can install CPAN modules, you can use them.

      As I understand File::BaseDir (you refer to it in your question) is also not an core module, so someone installed it. Maybe the result of File::BaseDir on the windows machine is empty because it's not installed there.