tod222 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Monks,

Being totally new to packaging Module::Install sounded good. My package has an executable, but I don't see how to set EXE_FILES (or other ExtUtils::MakeMaker attributes) using Module::Install.

Without giving up and just using ExtUtils::MakeMaker, how can I indicate to Module::Install that there are exe files?

Thanks.

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Re: Module::Install: How do I set EXE_FILES?
by almut (Canon) on Jul 28, 2008 at 19:07 UTC
    how can I indicate to Module::Install that there are exe files?

    Maybe install_script ... ?

    At least, this seems to be mapped to EXE_FILES internally: 

    sub install_script {
        my $self = shift;
        my $args = $self->makemaker_args;
        my $exe  = $args->{EXE_FILES} ||= [];
        foreach ( @_ ) {
                if ( -f $_ ) {
                        push @$exe, $_;
                } elsif ( -d 'script' and -f "script/$_" ) {
                        push @$exe, "script/$_";
                } else {
                        die("Cannot find script '$_'");
                }
        }
}

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      Yes, thanks, install_script does it, I just noticed that.
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