Question

I wrote some modules, and trying to run them. How I tell where to take the module from?

I am writing in Windows, and tried to put it in c:\perl\lib but it didn’t help.

Can I put it in the same directory, as the file that calls the module?

Answer 1

Perl uses the paths in:

@INC

to search for modules. (.pm files)

If you:

perl -e 'print join "\n", @INC;'

you’ll see what paths are currently being searched for modules. (This @INC list is compiled into the perl executable)

Then you can:

BEGIN { unshift @INC, 'C:\mylibs' }

or

use lib 'C:\mylibs'

and place MyModule.pm inside C:\mylibs to enable:

use MyModule;