The modules may not have been entirely needed. One of the things that I have been forced by necessity to do is tell Perl exactly which functionality I need from each module. Now, this isn't all that easy to do with dependencies, but it beats loading the entire POSIX module into the EXE.

As best as I can understand it, when you execute a perl script, or compile it to byte code, the engine pulls in all of the modules that are declared. If you don't want to pull them all in, you need to use something like: use POSIX qw(:errno_h); That *should* fix the problem you have of the executables being large. Hopefully someone else will have better input than I do. :)

In reply to Re: Perl Executables by peschkaj
in thread Perl Executables by Cody Pendant

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