Hi, I am quite a newbie with Perl and CPAN, so please bear with me.
I have been developping a custom application in Perl for a few weeks for a customer. The customer's machine will not have internet access. My code uses a few CPAN modules that will not be on the customer's machine. Therefore I need to deliver both my code and the said CPAN modules, and I'm not quite sure how I can do that. My internet search uncovered a few hits which describe how to manually install without internet access, but it's not quite what I need. This is because target machine is very bare bone and lacks a number of tools, including for example a C compiler. So delivering the full set of building tools is really heavy handed. My idea was to deliver only the built libraries and required binaries. The good news is I have a "clone" of the target machine on a virtual machine, which I can connect to the internet. So I can install and build everything on that virtual machine, and then copy all the new binaries back to the actual target machine (using a CD-ROM or a USB thumb drive). With that in mind, here are my questions: 1) will it be enough to copy all new files in the CPAN installation directorie(s)? 2) how can I find where CPAN installs its modules? Is it correct to use the directories stored in the @INC variable? In my specific case, the target machine is a vanilla CentOS 5.2 Linux install. The modules I use include DBI with SQLite3 access, Moose, Log::Log4perl, File::Path, File::Copy, File::Basename, Text::Iconv with perhaps a few more coming later. I hope this is the correct list to ask such questions. Many thanks for any suggestion. Jean-Denis
