Re: *more* relocatable perl

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On Thu, 16 Jul 2026 at 14:08, Gianni Ceccarelli via perl5-porters <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> For $work, I need to build a `perl` that can be copied in different
> locations, and should work fine from any of them.
>

Presumably you mean without any install step?

FWIW: Back in the day on Win32 Activestate had a relocatable perls, in the
sense that they would distribute prebuilt executables, but they had to go
through an install step to be usable (a win32 style installer). One trick I
remember they used (and the main reason I'm writing this email: to get this
concept on record in this thread), was to prefill certain fields in the
binary with a long series of nulls (or some other specialy crafted string).
They would then overwrite those fields in the binary during install.

Yves

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