Hi,
Is there some flag or environment variable that 'pp -c' will set when it
is compiling the program to check dependencies? I need to load some
modules (which are normally loaded conditonally at runtime) at
compile-time during packaging so that their dependencies are picked up.
Here's the explanation for why I want this in case you have a better
solution:
I have a large program that I am packing with pp for distribution. It
is seperated into two different modules, only one of which will be used
in a given run of the program.
The basic structure is this:
if (some condition) {
require First::Module;
First::Module->run;
} else {
require Second::Module;
Second::Module->run;
}
If I put 'use First::Module; use Second::Module;' above this and use pp
-c, then all the modules they depend on are pulled in correctly.
However, if I remove those two 'use' statements there seem to be a large
number of modules missing from the PAR executable.
Since the two modules have a large number of dependencies, I would
rather only load the portion I need at runtime in order to save on
start-up time and memory use. However, PAR doesn't seem to pick up
all the necessary modules when I do this.
Thank you for your help,
David Irving
