Alien::Build::MM

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3)
Updated: 2019-04-22
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NAME

Alien::Build::MM - Alien::Build installer code for ExtUtils::MakeMaker

VERSION

version 1.67

SYNOPSIS

In your "Makefile.PL":

 use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
 use Alien::Build::MM;
 
 my $abmm = Alien::Build::MM->new;
 
 WriteMakefile($abmm->mm_args(
   ABSTRACT     => 'Discover or download and install libfoo',
   DISTNAME     => 'Alien-Libfoo',
   NAME         => 'Alien::Libfoo',
   VERSION_FROM => 'lib/Alien/Libfoo.pm',
   ...
 ));
 
 sub MY::postamble {
   $abmm->mm_postamble;
 }

In your "lib/Alien/Libfoo.pm":

 package Alien::Libfoo;
 use base qw( Alien::Base );
 1;

In your alienfile (needs to be named "alienfile" and should be in the root of your dist):

 use alienfile;

 plugin 'PkgConfig' => 'libfoo';

 share {
   start_url 'http://libfoo.org';
   ...
 };

DESCRIPTION

This class allows you to use Alien::Build and Alien::Base with ExtUtils::MakeMaker. It load the alienfile recipe in the root of your Alien dist, updates the prereqs passed into "WriteMakefile" if any are specified by your alienfile or its plugins, and adds a postamble to the "Makefile" that will download/build/test the alienized package as appropriate.

The alienfile must be named "alienfile".

If you are using Dist::Zilla to author your Alien dist, you should consider using the Dist::Zilla::Plugin::AlienBuild plugin.

I personally don't recommend it, but if you want to use Module::Build instead, you can use Alien::Build::MB.

CONSTRUCTOR

new

 my $abmm = Alien::Build::MM->new;

Create a new instance of Alien::Build::MM.

PROPERTIES

build

 my $build = $abmm->build;

The Alien::Build instance.

alienfile_meta

 my $bool = $abmm->alienfile_meta

Set to a false value, in order to turn off the x_alienfile meta

METHODS

mm_args

 my %args = $abmm->mm_args(%args);

Adjust the arguments passed into "WriteMakefile" as needed by Alien::Build.

mm_postamble

 my $postamble $abmm->mm_postamble;

Returns the postamble for the "Makefile" needed for Alien::Build. This adds the following "make" targets which are normally called when you run "make all", but can be run individually if needed for debugging.

alien_prefix: Determines the final install prefix ("%{.install.prefix}").
alien_version: Determine the perl_module_version ("%{.runtime.perl_module_version}")
alien_download: Downloads the source from the internet. Does nothing for a system install.
alien_build: Build from source (if a share install). Gather configuration (for either system or share install).
alien_prop: Prints the meta, install and runtime properties for the Alien.

AUTHOR

Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

Contributors:

Diab Jerius (DJERIUS)

Roy Storey

Ilya Pavlov

David Mertens (run4flat)

Mark Nunberg (mordy, mnunberg)

Christian Walde (Mithaldu)

Brian Wightman (MidLifeXis)

Zaki Mughal (zmughal)

mohawk (mohawk2, ETJ)

Vikas N Kumar (vikasnkumar)

Flavio Poletti (polettix)

Salvador Fandiño (salva)

Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar)

Pavel Shaydo (zwon, trinitum)

Kang-min Liu (劉康民, gugod)

Nicholas Shipp (nshp)

Juan Julián Merelo Guervós (JJ)

Joel Berger (JBERGER)

Petr Pisar (ppisar)

Lance Wicks (LANCEW)

Ahmad Fatoum (a3f, ATHREEF)

José Joaquín Atria (JJATRIA)

Duke Leto (LETO)

Shoichi Kaji (SKAJI)

Shawn Laffan (SLAFFAN)

Paul Evans (leonerd, PEVANS)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.