Package Info

perl-PAR


Perl Archive Toolkit


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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.


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

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1.018-bp155.1.4 info GA Release 2023-05-17 15 SP5
  • AArch64
  • ppc64le
  • s390x
  • x86-64
  • perl-PAR
1.017-bp154.1.15 info GA Release 2022-05-09 15 SP4
  • AArch64
  • ppc64le
  • s390x
  • x86-64
  • perl-PAR
1.017-bp153.1.11 info GA Release 2021-03-06 15 SP3
  • AArch64
  • ppc64le
  • s390x
  • x86-64
  • perl-PAR
1.015-bp152.3.15 info GA Release 2020-04-16 15 SP2
  • AArch64
  • ppc64le
  • s390x
  • x86-64
  • perl-PAR
1.015-bp151.3.1 info GA Release 2019-07-16 15 SP1
  • AArch64
  • ppc64le
  • s390x
  • x86-64
  • perl-PAR
1.015-bp151.2.12 info GA Release 2019-05-18 15 SP1
  • AArch64
  • ppc64le
  • s390x
  • x86-64
  • perl-PAR
1.015-bp150.2.4 info GA Release 2018-07-30 15
  • AArch64
  • ppc64le
  • s390x
  • x86-64
  • perl-PAR