Louis-Philippe (l0u1sph1...@spiraliens.org)

I tested it also on my OSX 10.4 machine,
seems that anywhere I execute my script I get the proper variable inside $0,

thanks guys!

l-p


[email protected: ----mark.do...@znix.com] wrote ----

Hi Steffen,

I did think this trough.

On my Win32 box, as a packed pp exec, test.exe called as

..\..\test.exe

or just test.exe

gets

C:\fullpath\to\test.exe

in $0.

So, anything that parses $0 and uses the result correctly when it is a script ( so gets the right path whether $0 contains C:\fullpath\to\test.exe or ..\..\test.exe or .\test.exe or test.exe ), will always work when $0 contains a full path.

I can't speak for PerlApp - didn't check that out.

Best Regards

Mark

Thanks Mark!
thats it:

script:
$0 = /Volumes/KanDriv/svn_repos/alpha/trunk/perl/svn_tools/testDir.pl
$^X = /usr/bin/perl

with pp:
$0 = /Volumes/KanDriv/svn_repos/alpha/trunk/perl/svn_tools/testDir_pp
$^X = perl

with PerlApp:
$0 = /Volumes/KanDriv/svn_repos/alpha/trunk/perl/svn_tools/testDir_perlapp
$^X = perl


so that happen to be the most portable way of doing it, this way I don't have to modify my programs to package them with either utility.

l-p


[email protected: ----mark.do...@znix.com] wrote ----

Hi,

from memory, $0 contains the full path to your exec when packaged.

Try packaging

print qq(\$0 = $0\n);
print qq(\$^X = $^X\n);

and see what it gives you.

This should mean that $0 should always work in packaged code if it worked in the script. (I think !!!)

Regards

Mark

Hi All,

I am new to PAR & pp, I discovered it this week when I ran into trouble trying to package scripts with PerlApp that PerlApp wouln't package because of version compatibility... so I tried pp an just felt in love with is simplicity & free nature.

so, now I am trying to port my script to pp, and one command is missing from my toolkit:
in PerlApp, I am aple to call PerlApp::exe() to get the executable file directory,
something I would do with cwd() inside of a straight .pl script...
I tried cwd() with a pp executable and it returns the shell working directory (i.e. my home folder).
anybody knows how to grab the executable directory path with pp?

thanks!

l-p