Alien::Build::Plugin::PkgConfig::CommandLine

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

Alien::Build::Plugin::PkgConfig::CommandLine - Probe system and determine library or tool properties using the pkg-config command line interface  

VERSION

version 1.67  

SYNOPSIS

 use alienfile;
 plugin 'PkgConfig::CommandLine' => (
   pkg_name => 'libfoo',
 );

 

DESCRIPTION

Note: in most case you will want to use Alien::Build::Plugin::Download::Negotiate instead. It picks the appropriate fetch plugin based on your platform and environment. In some cases you may need to use this plugin directly instead.

This plugin provides Probe and Gather steps for pkg-config based packages. It uses the best command line tools to accomplish this task.  

PROPERTIES

 

pkg_name

The package name. If this is a list reference then .pc files with all those package names must be present.  

atleast_version

The minimum required version that is acceptable version as provided by the system.  

exact_version

The exact required version that is acceptable version as provided by the system.  

max_version

The max required version that is acceptable version as provided by the system.  

minimum_version

Alias for "atleast_version" for backward compatibility.  

METHODS

 

available

 my $bool = Alien::Build::Plugin::PkgConfig::CommandLine->available;

Returns true if the necessary prereqs for this plugin are already installed.  

SEE ALSO

Alien::Build::Plugin::PkgConfig::Negotiate, Alien::Build, alienfile, Alien::Build::MM, 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 software is copyright (c) 2011-2019 by Graham Ollis.

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


 

Index

NAME
VERSION
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
PROPERTIES
pkg_name
atleast_version
exact_version
max_version
minimum_version
METHODS
available
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE