Re: [MacPerl] Distributing reduced MacPerl package with Droplet ?

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 06.14 98.02.02, Toni Zollikofer wrote:
>I while ago, found out (with some hints from Chris Nandor) that Droplets or
>runtime modules do not work without the MacPerl package, if they reference
>libraries or modules (with "use" or "require").
>At least, I found it impossible to recursively paste in everything whats
>called during execution (if there IS a way, please tell me).

Well, actually, droplets will not run AT ALL without the MacPerl
executable.  Runtimes will run without the executable, but not without
libaries that it needs.  However, TEXT libraries and modules can be
embedded in the resource fork of the runtime, so you do not need an extra
folder.

The only problem then is shared/dynamic libraries, that cannot (yet) be
embedded.  For those, there are only two options: either put them in a
folder, OR use the 68K-only BigMacPerl app to save your runtime.  This
version of MacPerl has all the MacPerl shared libraries linked in
statically, so there is no need for accessing them externally (my
whichMacPerl app does this).

The script to save the TEXT libraries in the resource fork has been posted
many times, and is also on the MacPerl CD-ROM (ExtractModules is its name).
If you need it, I can e-mail it to you.  The only thing this droplet does
not do for you is it does not embed autoloaded files ... if it still says
it can't find files after you run the droplet, you can just add those extra
ones by hand, using ResEdit.  You should see, in the TEXT resource, how it
all works.

Have fun,

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