On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 02:42:34PM +0100, Lyle wrote: > David Cantrell wrote: > > My motivation is that it's a really easy way to give back to the > > community. > Good, I hoped as much. Now I'm wondering, as the CPAN testers (not > CPANTS) are building XS modules against the C libraries, in your > opinion, how hard would it be to get some of them to build a ppm package > afterward?
I don't really know what's involved in making a ppm, but if it can be automated to make them build without requiring any user interaction, then it should be possible. Hop on over to the cpan-testers-discuss mailing list and see if anyone there can help: http://lists.cpan.org/showlist.cgi?name=cpan-testers > > Yes, it'll work, provided that you set any paths that need encoding into > > the binaries correctly for the target system, and you build against the > > right ABI. The easiest way to ensure this is to replicate the target > > environment on your own machine - build perl with all the same options > > (ie the same Config.pm or perl -V), same compiler, same word length etc. > I'm guessing that once the libraries are built it doesn't matter what > compiler was used? I.e. you could build some modules with Borland C and > install them on a Perl built with Visual C? No. In general, perl will only be able to load libraries that are built with the same compiler and options that it is. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness Please stop rolling your Jargon Dice and explain the problem you are having to me in plain English, using small words. -- John Hardin, in the Monastery _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
