The start of a fatpack approach. Adds a base module.

.gitignore

@@ -41,3 +41,5 @@ Changes*[123456789]
 /test/
 output.txt
 .DS_Store
+fatpacker.trace
+bin/program-example

MANIFEST.SKIP

@@ -101,3 +101,5 @@ PROGRAMMING_STYLE.md
 .token
 
 .downstream.json
+
+bin/program-example

Makefile.PL

@@ -44,14 +44,31 @@ Perl.
 
 =cut
 
+
+BEGIN {
+use ExtUtils::MM_Any;
+no warnings qw(redefine);
+
+# get rid of the warning about README.pod, because I'm using it.
+# It's also in INSTALL.SKIP
+sub ExtUtils::MM_Any::libscan {
+    my($self,$path) = @_;
+
+    my($dirs,$file) = ($self->splitpath($path))[1,2];
+    return '' if grep /^(?:RCS|CVS|SCCS|\.svn|_darcs)$/,
+                     $self->splitdir($dirs), $file;
+
+    return $path;
+	}
+}
+
 # You can specify INSTALL_BASE on the command line or in an environment
 # variable a tool sets. We should respect either of them.
 my $install_base_in_argv        = grep { /\AINSTALL_BASE\b/ } @ARGV;
 my $install_base_in_perl_mm_opt = (defined $ENV{PERL_MM_OPT} ? $ENV{PERL_MM_OPT} : "") =~ /\bINSTALL_BASE\b/;
 my $has_install_base =
 	$install_base_in_argv || $install_base_in_perl_mm_opt || 0;
 
-use File::Spec::Functions qw(catfile);
 my $home = home();
 unless( $has_install_base ) {
 	my $path = catfile($home, 'perlpowertools');
@@ -98,6 +115,13 @@ my $module    = __PACKAGE__;
 my $github    = 'https://github.com/briandfoy/PerlPowerTools';
 my $main_file = catfile( 'lib', split /::/, "$module.pm" );
 
+use File::Basename;
+use File::Spec::Functions qw(catfile);
+my $bin = 'bin'; # used later in the postamble too
+my $bin_to_pack = 'bin_to_pack';
+my @packed_bins = map { catfile $bin, basename($_) } glob( catfile $bin_to_pack, '*' );
+
+
 my %WriteMakefile = (
 	'MIN_PERL_VERSION' => '5.008',
 
@@ -110,6 +134,7 @@ my %WriteMakefile = (
 	'EXE_FILES'     => \@exe_files,
 
 	'CONFIGURE_REQUIRES' => {
+		'App::Fatpacker'        => '0',
 		'ExtUtils::MakeMaker'   => '6.64',
 		'File::Spec::Functions' => '0',
 		},
@@ -144,7 +169,7 @@ my %WriteMakefile = (
 			},
 		},
 
-	clean => { FILES => "$dist-*" },
+	clean => { FILES => "$dist-* @packed_bins" },
 	test => {TESTS => 't/*.t t/*/*.t'}
 	);
 
@@ -194,5 +219,41 @@ sub home {
 	}
 }
 
+sub MY::postamble {
+	my $pack_command =
+		$^O eq 'MSWin32'
+			?
+		q(set PERL5LIB=lib && fatpack pack "$<" > "$@")
+			:
+		q(PERL5LIB=lib fatpack pack "$<" > "$@")
+			;
+
+	# these vars at lexicals at the file level
+	my $v = <<"VARS";
+
+PACK_SRC_DIR  := $bin_to_pack
+PACK_DEST_DIR := $bin
+
+VARS
+
+    $v .= <<'POSTAMBLE';
+
+SRC := $(wildcard $(PACK_SRC_DIR)/*)
+OUT := $(patsubst $(PACK_SRC_DIR)/%,$(PACK_DEST_DIR)/%,$(SRC))
+
+.PHONY: pack
+pack: $(PACK_DEST_DIR) $(OUT)
+
+config :: pack
+
+$(PACK_DEST_DIR):
+	$(PERL) -MFile::Path=make_path -e "make_path(q{$@})"
+
+$(PACK_DEST_DIR)/%: $(PACK_SRC_DIR)/%
+POSTAMBLE
+
+	$v .= "\t$pack_command\n\n";
+	}
+
 no warnings;
 __PACKAGE__;