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package ExtUtils::Liblist; | |
use strict; | |
use warnings; | |
our $VERSION = '7.62'; | |
$VERSION =~ tr/_//d; | |
use File::Spec; | |
require ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid; | |
our @ISA = qw(ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid File::Spec); | |
# Backwards compatibility with old interface. | |
sub ext { | |
goto &ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid::ext; | |
} | |
sub lsdir { | |
shift; | |
my $rex = qr/$_[1]/; | |
opendir my $dir_fh, $_[0]; | |
my @out = grep /$rex/, readdir $dir_fh; | |
closedir $dir_fh; | |
return @out; | |
} | |
__END__ | |
=head1 NAME | |
ExtUtils::Liblist - determine libraries to use and how to use them | |
=head1 SYNOPSIS | |
require ExtUtils::Liblist; | |
$MM->ext($potential_libs, $verbose, $need_names); | |
# Usually you can get away with: | |
ExtUtils::Liblist->ext($potential_libs, $verbose, $need_names) | |
=head1 DESCRIPTION | |
This utility takes a list of libraries in the form C<-llib1 -llib2 | |
-llib3> and returns lines suitable for inclusion in an extension | |
Makefile. Extra library paths may be included with the form | |
C<-L/another/path> this will affect the searches for all subsequent | |
libraries. | |
It returns an array of four or five scalar values: EXTRALIBS, | |
BSLOADLIBS, LDLOADLIBS, LD_RUN_PATH, and, optionally, a reference to | |
the array of the filenames of actual libraries. Some of these don't | |
mean anything unless on Unix. See the details about those platform | |
specifics below. The list of the filenames is returned only if | |
$need_names argument is true. | |
Dependent libraries can be linked in one of three ways: | |
=over 2 | |
=item * For static extensions | |
by the ld command when the perl binary is linked with the extension | |
library. See EXTRALIBS below. | |
=item * For dynamic extensions at build/link time | |
by the ld command when the shared object is built/linked. See | |
LDLOADLIBS below. | |
=item * For dynamic extensions at load time | |
by the DynaLoader when the shared object is loaded. See BSLOADLIBS | |
below. | |
=back | |
=head2 EXTRALIBS | |
List of libraries that need to be linked with when linking a perl | |
binary which includes this extension. Only those libraries that | |
actually exist are included. These are written to a file and used | |
when linking perl. | |
=head2 LDLOADLIBS and LD_RUN_PATH | |
List of those libraries which can or must be linked into the shared | |
library when created using ld. These may be static or dynamic | |
libraries. LD_RUN_PATH is a colon separated list of the directories | |
in LDLOADLIBS. It is passed as an environment variable to the process | |
that links the shared library. | |
=head2 BSLOADLIBS | |
List of those libraries that are needed but can be linked in | |
dynamically at run time on this platform. SunOS/Solaris does not need | |
this because ld records the information (from LDLOADLIBS) into the | |
object file. This list is used to create a .bs (bootstrap) file. | |
=head1 PORTABILITY | |
This module deals with a lot of system dependencies and has quite a | |
few architecture specific C<if>s in the code. | |
=head2 VMS implementation | |
The version of ext() which is executed under VMS differs from the | |
Unix-OS/2 version in several respects: | |
=over 2 | |
=item * | |
Input library and path specifications are accepted with or without the | |
C<-l> and C<-L> prefixes used by Unix linkers. If neither prefix is | |
present, a token is considered a directory to search if it is in fact | |
a directory, and a library to search for otherwise. Authors who wish | |
their extensions to be portable to Unix or OS/2 should use the Unix | |
prefixes, since the Unix-OS/2 version of ext() requires them. | |
=item * | |
Wherever possible, shareable images are preferred to object libraries, | |
and object libraries to plain object files. In accordance with VMS | |
naming conventions, ext() looks for files named I<lib>shr and I<lib>rtl; | |
it also looks for I<lib>lib and libI<lib> to accommodate Unix conventions | |
used in some ported software. | |
=item * | |
For each library that is found, an appropriate directive for a linker options | |
file is generated. The return values are space-separated strings of | |
these directives, rather than elements used on the linker command line. | |
=item * | |
LDLOADLIBS contains both the libraries found based on C<$potential_libs> and | |
the CRTLs, if any, specified in Config.pm. EXTRALIBS contains just those | |
libraries found based on C<$potential_libs>. BSLOADLIBS and LD_RUN_PATH | |
are always empty. | |
=back | |
In addition, an attempt is made to recognize several common Unix library | |
names, and filter them out or convert them to their VMS equivalents, as | |
appropriate. | |
In general, the VMS version of ext() should properly handle input from | |
extensions originally designed for a Unix or VMS environment. If you | |
encounter problems, or discover cases where the search could be improved, | |
please let us know. | |
=head2 Win32 implementation | |
The version of ext() which is executed under Win32 differs from the | |
Unix-OS/2 version in several respects: | |
=over 2 | |
=item * | |
If C<$potential_libs> is empty, the return value will be empty. | |
Otherwise, the libraries specified by C<$Config{perllibs}> (see Config.pm) | |
will be appended to the list of C<$potential_libs>. The libraries | |
will be searched for in the directories specified in C<$potential_libs>, | |
C<$Config{libpth}>, and in C<$Config{installarchlib}/CORE>. | |
For each library that is found, a space-separated list of fully qualified | |
library pathnames is generated. | |
=item * | |
Input library and path specifications are accepted with or without the | |
C<-l> and C<-L> prefixes used by Unix linkers. | |
An entry of the form C<-La:\foo> specifies the C<a:\foo> directory to look | |
for the libraries that follow. | |
An entry of the form C<-lfoo> specifies the library C<foo>, which may be | |
spelled differently depending on what kind of compiler you are using. If | |
you are using GCC, it gets translated to C<libfoo.a>, but for other win32 | |
compilers, it becomes C<foo.lib>. If no files are found by those translated | |
names, one more attempt is made to find them using either C<foo.a> or | |
C<libfoo.lib>, depending on whether GCC or some other win32 compiler is | |
being used, respectively. | |
If neither the C<-L> or C<-l> prefix is present in an entry, the entry is | |
considered a directory to search if it is in fact a directory, and a | |
library to search for otherwise. The C<$Config{lib_ext}> suffix will | |
be appended to any entries that are not directories and don't already have | |
the suffix. | |
Note that the C<-L> and C<-l> prefixes are B<not required>, but authors | |
who wish their extensions to be portable to Unix or OS/2 should use the | |
prefixes, since the Unix-OS/2 version of ext() requires them. | |
=item * | |
Entries cannot be plain object files, as many Win32 compilers will | |
not handle object files in the place of libraries. | |
=item * | |
Entries in C<$potential_libs> beginning with a colon and followed by | |
alphanumeric characters are treated as flags. Unknown flags will be ignored. | |
An entry that matches C</:nodefault/i> disables the appending of default | |
libraries found in C<$Config{perllibs}> (this should be only needed very rarely). | |
An entry that matches C</:nosearch/i> disables all searching for | |
the libraries specified after it. Translation of C<-Lfoo> and | |
C<-lfoo> still happens as appropriate (depending on compiler being used, | |
as reflected by C<$Config{cc}>), but the entries are not verified to be | |
valid files or directories. | |
An entry that matches C</:search/i> reenables searching for | |
the libraries specified after it. You can put it at the end to | |
enable searching for default libraries specified by C<$Config{perllibs}>. | |
=item * | |
The libraries specified may be a mixture of static libraries and | |
import libraries (to link with DLLs). Since both kinds are used | |
pretty transparently on the Win32 platform, we do not attempt to | |
distinguish between them. | |
=item * | |
LDLOADLIBS and EXTRALIBS are always identical under Win32, and BSLOADLIBS | |
and LD_RUN_PATH are always empty (this may change in future). | |
=item * | |
You must make sure that any paths and path components are properly | |
surrounded with double-quotes if they contain spaces. For example, | |
C<$potential_libs> could be (literally): | |
"-Lc:\Program Files\vc\lib" msvcrt.lib "la test\foo bar.lib" | |
Note how the first and last entries are protected by quotes in order | |
to protect the spaces. | |
=item * | |
Since this module is most often used only indirectly from extension | |
C<Makefile.PL> files, here is an example C<Makefile.PL> entry to add | |
a library to the build process for an extension: | |
LIBS => ['-lgl'] | |
When using GCC, that entry specifies that MakeMaker should first look | |
for C<libgl.a> (followed by C<gl.a>) in all the locations specified by | |
C<$Config{libpth}>. | |
When using a compiler other than GCC, the above entry will search for | |
C<gl.lib> (followed by C<libgl.lib>). | |
If the library happens to be in a location not in C<$Config{libpth}>, | |
you need: | |
LIBS => ['-Lc:\gllibs -lgl'] | |
Here is a less often used example: | |
LIBS => ['-lgl', ':nosearch -Ld:\mesalibs -lmesa -luser32'] | |
This specifies a search for library C<gl> as before. If that search | |
fails to find the library, it looks at the next item in the list. The | |
C<:nosearch> flag will prevent searching for the libraries that follow, | |
so it simply returns the value as C<-Ld:\mesalibs -lmesa -luser32>, | |
since GCC can use that value as is with its linker. | |
When using the Visual C compiler, the second item is returned as | |
C<-libpath:d:\mesalibs mesa.lib user32.lib>. | |
When using the Borland compiler, the second item is returned as | |
C<-Ld:\mesalibs mesa.lib user32.lib>, and MakeMaker takes care of | |
moving the C<-Ld:\mesalibs> to the correct place in the linker | |
command line. | |
=back | |
=head1 SEE ALSO | |
L<ExtUtils::MakeMaker> | |
=cut | |