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Can of course still do this with FatPacker: https://metacpan.org/pod/App::FatPacker

But, AFAIK, only supports Pure Perl code, so one is SOL for most database drivers etc...

PAR[1] is what you're looking for.

It supports loading XS modules by overriding DynaLoader bootstrapping methods; it writes shared object file to a temporary file at the time it is needed.

1: https://metacpan.org/pod/PAR

Awesome, thanks for the pointer! CPAN still has lots of tricks up its sleeve, eh :)

There will apparently never be a replacement for Perl :)

Yea I haven't used fatpacker but I've heard it is only for "pure perl" and can't be used with anything that drops down to XS or C.

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