To reiterate the previous post... yes, everywhere the code runs, “the library code must somehow be available,” but no, “there isn't Just One Way To Do It.” (This is Perl, after all...)

There are lots and lots of ways to deploy a Perl application. One of them is to create an “executable” which is completely self-contained. It basically contains all the necessary Perl code, and looks only “inward, to itself,” to find it.

Perl = TMTOWTDI!