Many Perl modules require some kind of dynamically-loaded "extras" in addition to the main *.pm files.

These may be C code that's compiled into an .SO (or local equivalent) and loaded by something called DynaLoader, or else they may be little snippets of Perl code that are split off into separate files by tools called AutoSplit and AutoLoader.

Regardless of what kind of "extras" are involved, almost all distributions support a standard series of commands, which will result in all of the necessary bits being set up as they should be.

From a Unix-like shell command prompt, the typical sequence is as follows: 

# cd Foo-Bar-1.0/
# perl Makefile.PL
# make
# make test
# make install

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If you're retrieving modules from CPAN, you can also use the CPAN shell, which makes this even easier: perl -MCPAN -e 'install Foo::Bar'

In reply to Re: Problem with DynaLoader and "use"ing downloaded modules by simonm
in thread Problem with DynaLoader and "use"ing downloaded modules by bnanaboy

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