How do I create then use long Windows paths from Perl?

Question

I have part of a build process that creates a hideously long paths in Windows. It\'s not my fault. It\'s several directories deep, and none of the directory names are abnorm

Answer 1

This should really be a comment but posting code in comments is hardly useful.

UNC paths do not work either:

C:\> net share
perlbuild    e:\home\src

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use File::Path qw(make_path);
use File::Slurp;
use Path::Class;

my $top = dir('//Computer/perlbuild');
my @comps = ('0123456789') x 30;

my $path = dir($top, @comps);

make_path $path, { verbose => 1 };

my $file = file($path, 'test.txt');

write_file "$file" => 'This is a test';

print read_file "$file";

Result:

mkdir \\Computer\perlbuild\0123456789\0123456789\0123456789\0123456789\0123456
789\0123456789\0123456789\0123456789\0123456789\0123456789\0123456789\0123456789
\0123456789\0123456789\0123456789\0123456789\0123456789\0123456789\0123456789\01
23456789\0123456789: No such file or directory; The filename or extension is too
 long at C:\Temp\k.pl line 15