----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Peshkin" <j...@peshkin.net>
To: <inline@perl.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: Static Linking with Inline::C
I like to remove the Inline::C dependency from any extensions that I
write
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and I wrote InlineX::C2XS to facilitate this.
Rob,
This is fantastic. It has me almost where I need to be.
After I added some t/ tests and a MANIFEST, this enables me to do a
"make dist" and make a very easy package. The one problem I have is
that I currently use...
LIBS => '-L/path/to/local/copy/of/special/libraries -lfirstlib
-lsecondlib -lthirdlib -lfirstlib -lsecondlib -lthirdlib'
I do this because the libraries refer to each other. The problem is now
the person who does tries to install the dist on another machine may
have those same libraries at a different path. Is there a way that
they could pass in a variable when they do "perl Makefile.PL" without
having to specify all of the -l options themselves?
I guess you could instruct them to run:
perl Makefile.PL /path/to/local/copy/of/special/libraries
and have, near the beginning of the Makefile.PL, something like:
if ($ARGV[0]) {
$libs =
"-L$ARGV[0] -lfirstlib -lsecondlib -lthirdlib -lfirstlib -lsecondlib -lthirdlib";
}
else { # assume the libraries will be found by default
$libs =
"-lfirstlib -lsecondlib -lthirdlib -lfirstlib -lsecondlib -lthirdlib";
}
And also specify (in the Makefile.PL):
LIBS => $libs;
Cheers,
Rob
