Re: ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Specifying binary files to include in module install

There is a EXE_FILES attribute but this is strictly for specifying Perl scripts to include with the module

Are you sure about that ? I find that any file specified in EXE_FILES gets installed into INSTALLBIN (irrespective of what that file contained).

Cheers,
Rob
Update:Minor correction - changed "INST_BIN" to "INSTALLBIN".
Update: However, this is probably not the ideal way to go about it. On Win32, not only does the EXE_FILE get installed into INSTALLBIN, but a copy of that file ("converted" to a batch file, and given a '.bat' extension) is also installed into INSTALLBIN - the assumption apparently being that EXE_FILE's are, in fact, supposed to be executable.

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Re^2: ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Specifying binary files to include in module install by Paul_A/V (Initiate) on Mar 28, 2007 at 12:55 UTC
When I list them in EXE_FILES they get processed by pl2bat so what ends up in Perl/bin is a .exe and a .exe.bat This is messy and so I was trying to find a cleaner way of doing this. Thanks. Respectfully, Paul	[reply]