Re: Installing binary-dependant module on shared hosting (Time::Piece)

[Joost]

Compile the module on a binary compatible system and move everything in blib/ to whatever directory you store your modules on the remote host.

perl Makefile.PL
make
# copy blib

[isync]

I did as described and still no success.

After I wrangled with unix permissions and the output of the compiler on my local machine, I uploaded the blib path which contains

/arch
/lib
/man3

directories. Then, an error later, as I thought the module coulnd't find it, I moved a copy of the "Piece.so" file from /arch into the /lib tree and got the following error:

"Can't load '/path/to/blib/lib//auto/Time/Piece/Piece.so' for module Time::Piece: /path/to/blib/lib//auto/Time/Piece/Piece.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/DynaLoader.pm line 202. "

I use "use lib qw( /path/to/blib/lib/ );" in the script.

[Joost]

You should use use lib '/path/to/blib' not use '/path/to/blib/lib' if i understand you correctly.

So the argument to "use lib" should be the directory containing both "lib" and "arch".

update: or maybe you should move the whole "arch" directory into the "lib" dir. I'm not sure.

update 2: after inspecting the code in blib I assume what you actually need to do is:

use lib "/path/to/blib/lib";
use lib "/path/to/blib/arch";