Alien::Libxml2

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3)
Updated: 2019-03-27
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NAME

Alien::Libxml2 - Install the C libxml2 library on your system

VERSION

version 0.07

SYNOPSIS

In your Build.PL:

 use Module::Build;
 use Alien::Libxml2;
 my $builder = Module::Build->new(
   ...
   configure_requires => {
     'Alien::Libxml2' => '0',
     ...
   },
   extra_compiler_flags => Alien::Libxml2->cflags,
   extra_linker_flags   => Alien::Libxml2->libs,
   ...
 );
 
 $build->create_build_script;

In your Makefile.PL:

 use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
 use Config;
 use Alien::Libxml2;
 
 WriteMakefile(
   ...
   CONFIGURE_REQUIRES => {
     'Alien::Libxml2' => '0',
   },
   CCFLAGS => Alien::Libxml2->cflags . " $Config{ccflags}",
   LIBS    => [ Alien::Libxml2->libs ],
   ...
 );

In your FFI::Platypus script or module:

 use FFI::Platypus;
 use Alien::Libxml2;
 
 my $ffi = FFI::Platypus->new(
   lib => [ Alien::Libxml2->dynamic_libs ],
 );

DESCRIPTION

This module provides libxml2 for other modules to use. There was an already existing Alien::LibXML, but it uses the older Alien::Build::ModuleBuild and has not bee actively maintained for a while.

AUTHOR

Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

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.