Re: How to add a file to @INC path in perl

Files aren't added to @INC, directories are. For example, if Porter.pm was located in /home/ikegami/perl5/lib, I could do

use lib "/home/ikegami/perl5/lib";
use Porter;
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Keep in mind that if the package is My::Porter you, should place the file in /home/ikegami/perl5/lib/My and use

use lib "/home/ikegami/perl5/lib";
use My::Porter;
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Re^2: How to add a file to @INC path in perl by prafulltc (Acolyte) on Aug 31, 2011 at 07:24 UTC
with -I option , you can add files to @INC at run time. `#!/usr/bin/perl -I/path-to-new-library/` [download] Regrds, Prafull	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: How to add a file to @INC path in perl by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 31, 2011 at 07:26 UTC
That's actually before compile-time. Good thing too, because it would be useless to change `@INC` at run time.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: How to add a file to @INC path in perl by DrHyde (Prior) on Aug 31, 2011 at 10:03 UTC
I change `@INC` at run-time all the time. What you're probably confused about is that '`use Some::Module`' normally happens at compile-time (actually it happens in a virtual `BEGIN` block) and that is how most people interact with `@INC`. However, you can defer `use`ing modules by doing it in a string-`eval`, or you can use `require`, or `do`. And there are all kinds of evil tricks you can play by putting code-refs into @INC.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: How to add a file to @INC path in perl by Kc12349 (Monk) on Aug 31, 2011 at 22:42 UTC
I generally do much the same, but work from a relative path using the FindBin module. FindBin will give you the directory the script is running from. My additional libs are generally in a folder relative to this location as below. `use FindBin; use lib $FindBin::Bin . '/lib';` [download]	[reply] [d/l]