Re^2: staticperl ( and Mojolicious )

[basiliscos]

Thank you, for hinting on PAR::Packer

.

Here is my receipt, how to make Mojolicious::Lite working under PAR::packer. I have taken some ideas from here

1. You should have the code like the following at the beginning of myapp.pl, before "use Mojolicious::Lite" :

   BEGIN {
       if(exists $ENV{PAR_TEMP}) {
           my $dir = $ENV{PAR_TEMP};
           chdir $dir;
           my @substitutions = qw/Mojo Mojolicious/;
           for(@substitutions){
               next if -l;
               symlink "inc/$_", $_
                   or die "Can't symlink $_ at $dir: $!";
           }
           print "I'm at at $dir\n";
       }
   }
   

   NB for Win32 : the directories should be copied instead of just symlink'ed.

2. Locate the Mojo/entities.txt and Mojolicious/Commands.pm from Mojolicious distribution:

   $ locate entities.txt
   /home/dmol/development/perl/dev-env.new/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/lib
   +/site_perl/5.16.3/Mojo/entities.txt
   
   $ locate Commands.pm
   /home/dmol/development/perl/dev-env.new/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/lib
   +/site_perl/5.16.3/Mojolicious/Commands.pm
   

   (As alternative, you could just point to them somewhere, where Mojolicious disrtibution has being manually unpacked).

3. Create standalone application via the following command line:

   pp -x -a "/home/dmol/development/perl/dev-env.new/perlbrew/perls/perl-
   +5.16.3/lib/site_perl/5.16.3/Mojo/entities.txt;Mojo/entities.txt" \
   -a "/home/dmol/development/perl/dev-env.new/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3
   +/lib/site_perl/5.16.3/Mojolicious/Commands.pm;Mojolicious/Commands.pm
   +" \
    ./myapp.pl
   

I haven't tried the application with external public and templates dirs, but probably, you should include them into archive (see pp's help), and may be do the same tricks as in p.1

I hope it would be useful for somebody!