in reply to creating an installation script

What you want to achieve is something like this:

  perl Makefile.PL
  make
  make test
  make install

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The good news is that you probably have everything you may need. Just read ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Tutorial

I also suggest that you install Module::Starter and use it to start a sample project; take a look on the generated code and see how easy it is to write a Makefile.PL and basic tests.

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Re^2: creating an installation script
by diamantis (Beadle) on Jun 12, 2007 at 17:39 UTC
    Is ExtUtils::MakeMaker appropriate for packaging a complete application or only for modules?

    I wish to make an easy to use installation script for a perl/tk GUI frontend that is comprised of a .pl file, a .pm, some data files and it needs some external programs.

    I currently have some problems installing sdist, par and pp (some error while making), so I was not able to try them yet.

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