isync has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am on managed hosting and have no rights to install additional perl modules via cpan.

As a workaround, I just uploaded the extracted module archives to the script's directory. But now I seem to have reached the end of this solution.

I uploaded the contents of Time::Piece:
-Piece.pm
-Piece.xs
-Seconds.pm
to a /Time subdirectory.

Running the script, which needs Time::Piece, I got this error:

"Can't locate loadable object for module Time::Piece in @INC".

I think it is because Piece.xs needs to be compiled. But how do I do this? Possible? Or is there another problem?
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Re: Installing binary-dependant module on shared hosting (Time::Piece)
by Joost (Canon) on Apr 17, 2007 at 20:48 UTC
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      I did as described and still no success.

      After I wrangled with unix permissions and the output of the compiler on my local machine, I uploaded the blib path which contains

      /arch
      /lib
      /man3

      directories. Then, an error later, as I thought the module coulnd't find it, I moved a copy of the "Piece.so" file from /arch into the /lib tree and got the following error:

      "Can't load '/path/to/blib/lib//auto/Time/Piece/Piece.so' for module Time::Piece: /path/to/blib/lib//auto/Time/Piece/Piece.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/DynaLoader.pm line 202. "

      I use "use lib qw( /path/to/blib/lib/ );" in the script.
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        You should use use lib '/path/to/blib' not use '/path/to/blib/lib' if i understand you correctly.

        So the argument to "use lib" should be the directory containing both "lib" and "arch".

        update: or maybe you should move the whole "arch" directory into the "lib" dir. I'm not sure.

        update 2: after inspecting the code in blib I assume what you actually need to do is: 

        use lib "/path/to/blib/lib";
use lib "/path/to/blib/arch";

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Re: Installing binary-dependant module on shared hosting (Time::Piece)
by dana (Monk) on Apr 17, 2007 at 21:06 UTC

    You can specify the installation directory by following the directions at the bottom of the following:
    http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/2.22/html/nonroot.html

    Then specify which lib to use at the top of your perl script:
    use lib qw( /this/is/the/path/to/my/installed/module/ )

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      Does this comment imply I should stop manualy extracting module tars into my script dirs and instead modify the cpan workings to use a dir in my directory domain (and finally solve the permission problem)?
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        The CPAN config allows you to establish your own lib in your home file space (or anyplace you can write to). After which you can simply "use lib("path_to_your_cpan_libs") at the top of your perl code. So yes, that is the route that I go when I can't install to the system lib location for Perl. Another method with detail is described here ->

        The easiest way to get what you want is to

        $>perl -MCPAN -e sh

        then

        cpan> o conf init

        Details here->

        hope that helps....

        ...the majority is always wrong, and always the last to know about it...

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        Exactly.

        You can use CPAN, writing to a directory of your choice to which you have access, then reference that directory in a 'use lib' statement.

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