Cant Locate Image/Info.pm Module Error - perl

I'm trying to get the resolution,width,height of the images in the specific file.
I have the following code.
#use strict;
use Image::Info qw(image_info dim);
use File::List;
#perl2exe_include Image::Info::JPEG;
#perl2exe_include PerlIO;
my $file = <ImageFilePath>;
my $info = image_info($file);
my $res = $info->{resolution};
print "$$res[0]\n";
I have the Perl Version 5.16.3
I get the following error:
Can't locate Image/Info.pm in #INC (#INC contains: c:\program files\Perl\lib c:/program files/Perl/site/lib c:/program files/Perl/lib .) at Img_Res.pl line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Img_Res.pl line 3.
Can anyone give me the solution to this?

From the code part of question I am concluding that you are trying to create an executable using Perl2EXE, because you are using the line
#perl2exe_include Image::Info::JPEG;
and also assuming that you are running command
perl2exe c:\somepath\somescript.pl -o somescript.exe
The answer from #James Green is correct to an extent, however its incomplete (as in fails to explain his second bullet point).
You need to install "Image::Info" and any other modules that you are using (Use the answer from #James Green).
After installation, Open to windows explorer and locate the module that you just installed,
It will normally be in the following folders
"PERL_PATH\perl\lib"
"PERL_PATH\perl\site\lib"
"PERL_PATH\perl\vendor\lib"
Once you locate the module is installed in the one of the 3 locations above. Navigate to the location where Perl2EXE is installed.
PERL2EXE_PATH\perl2exe-XX.xx-Win\
Locate the folder with the current version of perl you are using. In your case the folder name should be
Win32-5.16.3 or Win64-5.16.3
Open the folder and locate the .conf file.
Edit the line with header libdir.
libdir=perl-Win32/site/lib;perl-Win32/lib;perl-Win32/vendor/lib;.
Ensure all the perl/lib directories are included in the search path.
Save it and rerun your command. This should work.
Sometimes even after all this the perl2exe command fails, this is due to the limitation of the program being able to decipher the qw command.
So to avoid this directly call the module (ex: use Module::Name;) in your code instead of using the qw.

You need to ensure you've done two things:
install the Image::Info module
make sure #INC includes the path to wherever you installed the module
I see you're on Windows, which means you're likely using either Strawberry Perl, or ActiveState's Perl. If you're using Strawberry Perl you should have some success following the directions on http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html -- I believe ActiveState has its own built-in package manager, ppm, and to get started with that you'll want to look here: http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/ppm-perl-modules

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'use lib' can't find Perl module

I'm on Windows 7, I downloaded a CPAN module called XML::XPath, and I want to use it in a script I wrote.
I cannot modify #INC on my machine, I cannot modify environmental variables on my machine, I cannot run make on my machine, and I cannot use a package manager on my machine.
So in order to use the module, I went to the CPAN website, downloaded the module's .tar.gz file, and unzipped it into a lib folder in my project. I did that because this guide suggested that I can use use lib in the context of my script to reference the downloaded module:
Adding a use lib statement to the script will add the directory to #INC for that specific script. Regardless who and in what environment runs it.
My script is called test.pl. I am trying to use the XML::XPath module to parse an XML file called test.xml. Here is an example of my directory structure:
C:/
→ sandbox/
test.pl
test.xml
→ lib/
→ XML-XPath-1.13/
XPath.pm
→ XPath/
XMLParser.pm
(etc.)
This is my test.pl script:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use lib qw("C:/sandbox/lib/XML-XPath-1.13");
my $xml_file = "C:/sandbox/test.xml";
my $result;
if (-f $xml_file) {
$result = XML::XPath->new(filename => "$xml_file");
}
When I run this script with perl test.pl, the script fails with the following error:
Can't locate object method "new" via package "XML::XPath" (perhaps you forgot to load "XML::XPath"?) at test.pl line 10.
Can I resolve this error with use lib?
EDIT:
When I add use XML::XPath; to my test.pl script, as such:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use lib qw("C:/sandbox/lib/XML-XPath-1.13");
I get an error like:
Can't locate XML/XPath.pm in #INC
But as stated above, I cannot physically modify #INC or recompile Perl on my machine.
This is not going to work. XML::XPath depends on the XML::Parser module which needs to be compiled. Since you do not have a complete toolchain with a C compiler available, there is no way you are getting this to run. You will have to search for a different way to handle your XML.
Just extracting a tarball only works when you have a pure-Perl module.
The easiest way to get a full Perl toolchain on Windows is to install Linux install the Strawberry Perl distribution. There's even a ZIP edition and a portable edition that can be installed on a thumb drive, no admin privileges required.
Your more immediate problem is that XML::XPath in version 1.13 seems to be a shoddy module with an unusual directory layout. The package you are trying to load is at XML-XPath-1.13/XPath.pm but should be at XML-XPath-1.13/lib/XML/XPath.pm. Why?
When you say use XML::XPath; this does two things. First, Perl searches for a file XML/XPath.pm in all #INC directories. Assuming you have something like
use FindBin;
use lib "$FindBin::Bin/lib/XML-XPath-1.13";
then perl would expect a file PROJECT/lib/XML-XPath-1.13/XML/XPath.pm which doesn't exist (where I'm using PROJECT as placeholder for the directory of your script).
Since the file PROJECT/lib/XML-XPath-1.13/XPath.pm does exist you could say use XPath;.
But then the second thing happens: The package is imported so that it can load subroutines or constants into your namespace. The use'd package name is now used as a class: XPath->import. However, the XPath.pm file does not contain the XPath package but the XML::XPath package, so there is no XPath class with an import method.
The import method call can be suppressed by providing an empty list in the use statement: use XPath ();.
Better than such hacks, you could use a more recent version of XML::XPath (version 1.13 is from 2003, but the newer version 1.42 is from 2007). Once you extract it you could use lib "$FindBin::Bin/lib/XML-XPath-1.42/lib" and then use XML::XPath;.
But this still won't work, because XML::XPath does use XML::Parser and you don't have that module installed. Now we are back to your main problem: XML::Parser needs to be compiled first because it contains a C extension, and also relies on an external library. Without a full toolchain you can't compile it.
First of all, you should properly install the module into lib rather than unzipping the distribution into lib.
Then, you'll need
use FindBin qw( $RealBin );
use lib "$RealBin/lib";
use XML::XPath qw( );

App::FatPacker on Windows

I have a script on Windows which uses multiple pure Perl modules from CPAN.
I am trying to ship this script without the need to reinstall those modules from CPAN using App::FatPacker.
I installed App::FatPacker ( up to date (0.010007) version ) on Portable Strawberry Perl 5.24 .
When I run the following command
fatpack pack myscript.pl > myscript.packed.pl
I get
syntax OK
but the fatlib is empty and when I run my script it fails.
I tried to use this script which does nothing but load Geo::IP::PurePerl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Geo::IP::PurePerl;
and run again this command :
fatpack pack myscript.pl > myscript.packed.pl
Then I ran myscript.packed.pl on another instance of Strawberry Perl 5.24, I get the following error:
Can't locate Geo/IP/PurePerl.pm in #INC (you may need to install the Geo::IP::PurePerl module
I tried to debug it by building step by step
The fatpack trace creates a trace list as expected, including Geo::IP::PurePerl
The fatpack packlists-for finished successfully but the fatlib is empty.
Any idea?
I would say that packlists-for isn't finding any .packlist files
The documentation for fatpack says this
packlists-for
$ fatpack packlists-for Module1 Module2 Module3
Searches your perl's #INC for .packlist files containing the .pm files for the modules requested and emits a list of unique packlist files to STDOUT.
These packlists will, in a pure cpan-installation environment, be all non-core distributions required for those modules.
Unfortunately most vendors strip the .packlist files so if you installed modules via e.g. apt-get you may be missing those modules; installing your dependencies into a local::lib first is the preferred workaround.
I think that's useful advice that may well fix your problem

Perl Par::Packer Can't find module issue

I have a perl program that uses WWW::Mechanize::Firefox on windows 7 32bit with strawberry perl.
It works fine with the command C:\>perl testcase.pl. When I compile it with C:\>pp -o testcase.exe testcase.pl it compiles with no errors.
When I run the testcase.exe it gives me the error:
Failed to connect to , Can't locate object method "setup" via package "MozRepl::Client" at MozRepl.pm line 224
The code I am using for testcase.pl is:
#!perl
use MozRepl;
use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox;
use warnings;
system('start firefox');
sleep(5);
$mech = WWW::Mechanize::Firefox->new;
Also note that a program without WWW::Mechanize::Firefox and MozRepl does work fine.
The problem has obviously been narrowed down to PAR::Packer not liking MozRepl, any idea what it might be?
PAR::Packer sometimes has a hard time identifying which modules need to be included in a PAR package in order to fulfill all of the requirements of the program you are trying to package.
It copes OK if the dependancies are loaded via plain 'use', or 'require' statements where the module to be loaded is a literal string, but it won't have much chance if the module is being loaded dynamically with something like:
require $myModuleToLoad;
Browsing the source code of MozRepl and related modules shows that they make heavy use of plugins loaded dynamically. I suspect that some of these are not being packaged.
You can manually specify module(s) to be included in the PAR package by adding -M Module::Name to the pp command line for each of the modules to be added (replacing Module::Name with the actual module name of course).
The hard part might be identifying which modules to include. One way to do this is to temporarily add something like this to the end of your script:
END { print "$_ -> $INC{$_}\n" foreach sort keys %INC; }
then run your script normally, not through PAR. It should list all the modules that were loaded. You can compare that with the actual modules present in the PAR package and add the missing ones using the -M option to pp.
You can see the modules inside your PAR file by opening it with an unzipping tool, such as 7zip. Or in Linux:
unzip -l {parfile}

PAR : Explanation needed to create a PAR archive and use it remotely

I would like to deploy my Perl application to several remote servers. My perl application consists of one big program, using non-core modules : Path::Iterator::Rule, XML::Writer, and two home-made modules.
I would like to be able to deploy my application on a remote server whithout having to copy one by one all of the modules my program uses, with all their dependencies.
I had a look at PAR, which could help with what I'd like to do.
I need to create an archive ("modules.par") where I put my homemade modules, and I add Path::Iterator::Rule, XML::Writer modules ? But how can I be sure that all the dependencies of those modules are correctly added in my archive ?
I've understood that I need to do something like this in my main application :
use PAR;
use lib "modules.par";
use Path::Iterator::Rule;
use XML::Writer;
use HomemadeModule1;
use HomemadeModule2;
Sorry for the confusion, I'm really lost with all those module dependencies, ..
Edit :
So I've tried using cpanm -L extlib to create a directory with all my libraries, but I can't use cpanm on my system.
Now I'm trying to use PAR, I've created a file called "sources.par" in which all of my modules are contained, I used the following command :
pp -p myperlprogram.pl
This created the "sources.par", that I should be able to use in my program using this :
use PAR;
use lib "sources.par";
use XML::Writer;
use ..
But I still get the following message :
Can't locate XML/Writer.pm in #INC (#INC contains: sources.par CODE(0x10c0cc) /app/pro
dexpl/gld/LOA /usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/sun4-solaris-64int /usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib /usr/
perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/sun4-solaris-64int /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 /usr/perl5/s
ite_perl /usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/sun4-solaris-64int /usr/perl5/vendor_perl/
5.8.4 /usr/perl5/vendor_perl . CODE(0x10c1e0)) at /app/prodexpl/gld/LOA/AnalyseF
ichier.pm line 7.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /app/prodexpl/gld/LOA/AnalyseFichier.pm lin
e 7.
Compilation failed in require at /app/prodexpl/gld/LOA/loganalysis.pl line 9.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /app/prodexpl/gld/LOA/loganalysis.pl line 9
.
Any ideas what I could do ? You can see that #INC contains my sources.par file..
Create a package using either Module::Build or Module::Build::Tiny, and then just install the package on these remote machines. That way you can just specify what the dependencies are, and cpanm can install them as well.

#INC Perl- Can't locate Class/CSV.pm in #INC

I am currently trying to create/generate a CSV file using one of three classes:
use Class::CSV;
use Text::CSV;
use Text::CSV_XS;
Though when I try and run it, to check my code I come up with the same error message:
Can't locate Class/CSV.pm in #INC (#INC contains: C:/Per/site/lib C:/Perl/lib .) at C:\Users\<DIRECTORY> - <DIRECTORY>.file.pl line1
I have tried searching for the files though I haven't had any luck. Has anyone else come up against this problem? I have looking in the Directory and the CSV.pm file does exists.
Assuming that Class::CSV is installed on your system, your library search path is incomplete. (Your error message lists C:/Per/site/lib as a search lib, which looks like a typo for C:/Perl/site/lib, which you might want to look into.)
You need to locate the correct CSV.pm file where the library is located. For example, if it's found in:
C:/Perl/lib/foo/Class/CSV.pm
Then you have one of the following options.
Modify the environment for Perl or the invocation so that this is set (assuming my Windows skill haven't expired completely, someone feel free to edit and correct if I get the syntax wrong):
PERL5LIB=%PERL5LIB%;C:/Perl/lib/foo
You can use the -I option to perl to add the path:
perl -IC:/Perl/lib/foo my-app.pl
You can use the use lib command in the program itself to add the search path:
use lib 'C:/Perl/lib/foo';
use Class::CSV;
# etc.
You probably don't have these modules installed.
run this in your shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell
then run
install Class::CSV
I'm assuming that you found these classes on CPAN
You can simply run the following command
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Class::CSV'
to run
install Class::CSV in CPAN shell.