Hiya Monks, I've got two programs that are reliant on GNU based applications which Perl does "system" calls as part of the script. Obviously this creates a dependency on something external to Perl, which I'm not overly keen on.

For example, I have a utility that finds and removes unwanted temporary files on our File Server. The heart of the script uses the GNU "find" command. This is done on a win2000 box. I then compile this into an exe using Indigo Star's perl2exe. Obviously if you then try to run this on another box without the GNU version of find installed you get problems.

So my question is can you get Perl it include the GNU appliction into itself so that on compilation there is no external dependency? Am I making sense?

Any advice appreciated. It would help with portability of my programs.

Dean

Programming these days takes more than a lone avenger with a compiler. - sam

In reply to Importing external dependencies into source by crabbdean

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.