This is quite cute - a subclass of System::Sub that croaks at compile time if the command cannot be found:

use v5.10;
use strict;
use warnings;

package System::Sub::Env;

use Carp qw(croak);
use File::Which qw(which);

use base qw(System::Sub);

sub import {
    my $class = shift;
    my @super;
    while (@_) {
        my $cmd = shift;
        my %opt = @{ ref($_[0]) ? shift : [] };
        my $env = uc("PATH_TO_$cmd");
        $opt{'$0'} //= ($ENV{$env} // which($cmd));
        -x $opt{'$0'}
            or croak("Could not find '$cmd'; please set '$env' environ
+ment variable; stopped");
        push @super, $cmd => [%opt];
    }
    @_ = ($class, @super);
    goto \&System::Sub::import;
}

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You can use it like this:

use System::Sub::Env "mv";

mv("oldname.txt" => "newname.txt");

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At compile time, it will check to see if there's a $ENV{PATH_TO_MV environment variable set, and use mv from there (it should be the full path to the binary). If that's not set, it will fall back to a normal $ENV{PATH} search. And otherwise it will croak, asking them to set the environment variable.

package Cow { use Moo; has name => (is => 'lazy', default => sub { 'Mooington' }) } say Cow->new->name

In reply to Re: Executing a program from within a Perl Module in a non-standard path by tobyink
in thread Executing a program from within a Perl Module in a non-standard path by GoldElite

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