App::FatPacker - pack your dependencies onto your script file
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Caveats
As dependency module code is copied into the resulting file as text, only pure-perl dependencies can be
packed, not compiled XS code.
The currently-installed dependencies to pack are found via .packlist files, which are generally only
included in non-core distributions that were installed by a CPAN installer. This is a feature; see
"packlists-for" in fatpack for details. (a notable exception to this is FreeBSD, which, since its
packaging system is designed to work equivalently to a source install, does preserve the packlist files)
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2010 the App::FatPacker "AUTHOR" and "CONTRIBUTORS" as listed above.
License
This library is free software and may be distributed under the same terms as perl itself.
perl v5.36.0 2022-11-20 App::FatPacker(3pm)
Name
App::FatPacker - pack your dependencies onto your script file
See Also
article for Perl Advent 2012 <http://www.perladvent.org/2012/2012-12-14.html>
pp - PAR Packager, a much more complex architecture-dependent packer that can pack compiled code and even
a Perl interpreter
Support
Bugs may be submitted through the RT bug tracker <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=App-
FatPacker> (or bug-App-FatPacker@rt.cpan.org <mailto:bug-App-FatPacker@rt.cpan.org>).
You can normally also obtain assistance on irc, in #toolchain on irc.perl.org.
Synopsis
$ fatpack pack myscript.pl >myscript.packed.pl
Or, with more step-by-step control:
$ fatpack trace myscript.pl
$ fatpack packlists-for `cat fatpacker.trace` >packlists
$ fatpack tree `cat packlists`
$ fatpack file myscript.pl >myscript.packed.pl
Each command is designed to be simple and self-contained so that you can modify the input/output of each
step as needed. See the documentation for the fatpack script itself for more information.
The programmatic API for this code is not yet fully decided, hence the 0.x release version. Expect that
to be cleaned up for 1.0.
