I've done research on relocating an already installed perl and found an article from the DWIMPerl author, but it seemed to trail off.

I've built a standard/stock perl-5.24.1 for Windows 64-bit on Win 2012R2 using Visual Studio 10. Once I installed it to a directory, I made a tarball of the directory. Later, upon extracting that tarball to a different directory, the relocatability seems to work fine finding modules in the new library location. However, I am trying to CPAN install other modules and getting errors with make trying to reference paths from the original install location.

  1. Since Windows builds do not use the Configure script, I have made changes to the win32/Makefile. Does this file support the '...' functionality that Configure does for unix, i.e. allowing paths to be relative to Perl (perl.exe)?
  2. Once the installed perl is moved to another directory, was the original intention of the author(s) to allow CPAN modules to be installed on that perl?
  3. I read a lot online about reloc_perl, relocate_perl type scripts (CitrusPerl, DWIMPerl, etc). Is there a standard process that can be followed to know that I've patched all the right files (Config.pm, Config_heavy.pl, and other binary/text files within the install directory)?

In reply to Relocatable Perl by mfort

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