On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:12:41AM -0400, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:17 AM, O. STeffen BEYer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > what would be the best way to detect whether a working C compiler is
> > available at build time of a module (i.e., in Makefile.PL)?
> See the Makefile.PL for the 'threads' module. I have reused this
> technique in several other modules and it works well.
If all you need is a compiler, then that's the way to go. If what you
want to do is compile some stuff and link it to some other stuff, then
I'd use Devel::CheckLib, which will check for both a compiler, the
necessary libraries/headers, and a working linker.
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