perl-PAR

This module lets you use special zip files, called Perl Archives, as
libraries from which Perl modules can be loaded.
It supports loading XS modules by overriding DynaLoader bootstrapping
methods; it writes shared object file to a temporary file at the time it is
needed.
A .par file is mostly a zip of the blib/ directory after the build
process of a CPAN distribution. To generate a .par file yourself, all you
have to do is compress the modules under arch/ and lib/, e.g.:
% perl Makefile.PL
% make
% cd blib
% zip -r mymodule.par arch/ lib/


Afterward, you can just use mymodule.par anywhere in your '@INC', use
PAR, and it will Just Work. Support for generating .par files is going
to be in the next (beyond 0.2805) release of Module::Build.
For convenience, you can set the 'PERL5OPT' environment variable to '-MPAR'
to enable 'PAR' processing globally (the overhead is small if not used);
setting it to '-MPAR=/path/to/mylib.par' will load a specific PAR file.
Alternatively, consider using the par.pl utility bundled with the
PAR::Packer distribution, or using the self-contained parl utility which
is also distributed with PAR::Packer on machines without PAR.pm installed.
Note that self-containing scripts and executables created with par.pl and
pp may also be used as .par archives:
% pp -o packed.exe source.pl        # generate packed.exe (see PAR::Packer)
% perl -MPAR=packed.exe other.pl    # this also works
% perl -MPAR -Ipacked.exe other.pl  # ditto


Please see SYNOPSIS for most typical use cases.

          

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License: Artistic-1.0 OR GPL-1.0-or-later
URL: https://metacpan.org/release/PAR