On 08/14, Salz, Rich wrote: > > Just a comment. the OpenSSL build already depends on Perl and Perl already > > has a "Make" of it's own . > > Ooh, that could be interesting. What's the perl make thing called? > A web search for "perl make" was too voluminous...
Hm ... maybe some of my Google-fu can come in handy here. - Looks like Perl has more than a few build systems. This web slideshow, apparently from Bank Of America, is a comparison of build systems written in Perl. <http://preaction.github.io/Perl/Compare-Building-Modules.html> - Module::Build apparently comes with Perl. I have absolutely no idea whether it could be used to build C programs. <http://perldoc.perl.org/Module/Build/Cookbook.html> - Extutils::MakeMaker generates system-native (GNU Make for most POSIX systems and NMake/DMake for Windows, according to the docs) Makefiles from a `Makefile.PL` input: <http://search.cpan.org/~bingos/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.98/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm> - If you're building C with it, there is Extutils::CBuilder which is "used to build the C portions of Perl modules" but "not intended as a general cross-platform interface to all your C building". <http://search.cpan.org/~ambs/ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.280216/lib/ExtUtils/CBuilder.pm> - I also found AutoPerl, which is apparently some sort of syntax-compatible Automake implementation: <http://autoperl.sourceforge.net/autoperl-man1.html> - Config::AutoConf is an implementation of AutoConf macros in Perl. <http://search.cpan.org/~ambs/Config-AutoConf-0.25/lib/Config/AutoConf.pm> - Here's a slideshow someone made about building C modules using some of the above tools: <http://www.slideshare.net/hashashin/building-c-and-c-libraries-with-perl> - Finally, the book "Intermediate Perl" has a chapter about "creating your own Perl distribution" that includes some discussion of ExtUtils::Makemaker and Module::Build. <http://books.google.com/books?id=Q4EVfforC3UC&lpg=PA173&ots=eMQkUWWthZ&dq=perl%20build%20system&pg=PA173#v=onepage&q=perl%20build%20system&f=false> I can't at all comment on whether these handle dependency resolution as well as more traditional build systems. But Perl is second only to C in its ubiquity on most platforms, so perhaps this isn't a horrible idea ... Nathan ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
