Installing Perl module without CPAN

Question

I'm writing a Perl script that does date operations that need to take holidays into account, so I think I need either Date::Manip or Date::Calc. The server I'm going to put this script on is behind a firewall and therefore CPAN can't connect to the internet. Generally I can install Perl modules by just putting the .pm files in the Perl lib folder, but these two modules both have a C++ component or depend on a non-core module (YALM::Syck for Date::Manip) with a C++ component.

The server I'm deploying to also doesn't have GCC, so copying the installation package and building it there didn't work since it couldn't compile the C++. I tried building the packages on my home Linux PC and then copying them to the server, but got an error saying the module file was incorrect. The server is an IBM AIX box, so the module I compiled for my home pc is probably incompatible.

Is there any way I can get Date::Manip or Date::Calc working on this server? Are there any pure Perl (including dependencies) modules I could use instead?

Answer 1

All the favourites are not pure-perl.

• http://deps.cpantesters.org/?pureperl=on;module=DateTime
• http://deps.cpantesters.org/?pureperl=on;module=Date%3A%3AManip
• http://deps.cpantesters.org/?pureperl=on;module=Date%3A%3ACalc

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Set up a development box and mirror the production server. Install the compiler in the development environment. Build the modules and package them for deployment on production (AIX has packages, right‽).