Hi, monks,

I operate in a perlbrew environment in MacOS Monterey, using Perl 5.34.1. I'm trying to bundle a program to send to another Mac user who has only the MacOS-supplied v5.30.3 and has no Terminal experience (however, he can follow instructions!).

I've been trying to use App::FatPacker and have run into several problems.

1. My program uses Term::ReadLine, and I have installed Term::ReadLine::Gnu. fatpack file myprog produces a lot of messages like 

File /Users/chap/private/perl/fatlib/darwin-2level/auto/Term/ReadLine/
+Gnu/XS/get_history_event.al isn't a .pm file - can't pack this -- if 
+you hoped we were going to, things may not be what you expected later

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I'm guessing that this isn't fatal, and that the fallback Term::ReadLine's will come to the rescue.

2. My program uses my own CLH_Utils.pm module which lives in the same directory as myprog. And this directory is listed in @INC. But the final myprog.packed.pl doesn't contain CLH_Utils.pm.

I tried using the "recipe" (fatpack trace --use=CLH_Util myprog / packlists-for / tree / file), but the result was no different.

The doc on fatpack is kinda slim, and I'm at a loss what to try next. I'd certainly appreciate any help!

In reply to Need help using fatpack by ibm1620

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