I am developing a Web application on my Linux server at home that needs to work in two different environments: Linux based Web server with a commercial hosting provider & Windows XP on an intranet.

My development server and the Windows computer are both running xampp and the real Web server is running a real LAMP configuration.

I would like to write code so that I can copy it from one machine to the other without having to change anything.

As it is, I have to change the #! line for all of the Perl programs and I don't think I'll be able to avoid that. The other stuff, though, is all related to directories and file locations. This includes a use lib line for a module I wrote for this specific project.

For example, I would like something that works like this:

if ( $linux ) {
    $logdir = "/home/ghodmode/logs";
    $sep = "/";
} elsif ( $windows ) {
    $logdir = "c:\\xampp\\xampp\\webapp\\logs";
    $sep = "\\";
}

$logfile = "$logdir${sep}error_log.txt";

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I know that the use lib line will be tricker, but is it possible if I put it in a BEGIN block? Does anyone have some advice on how to do this stuff? Thank you, 
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