Hi,
Could the attached patch (against version 6.50 of ExtUtils/Liblist/Kid.pm)
be applied ?
It adds extra directories to $Config{libpth}, and thus enables additional
libraries to be found without having to specify their locations with the
'-L' switch (iff those locations have been specified in $ENV{LIBRARY_PATH}).
gcc (in general, not *just* on windows) already searches the locations
specified in $ENV{LIBRARY_PATH} - we just need to enable MakeMaker to find
them, and this patch does that for Windows.
We could even port this feature to other operating systems - though we'd
have to split on $Config{path_sep} rather than ';' and the code would have
to be moved out of sub _win32_ext. However, I doubt that there's much call
for this on other systems.
In fact, there's probably not even much of a demand for this on Windows -
but it would certainly be a useful feature for me.
Cheers,
Rob
--- C:/_32/comp/Extutils-Makemaker-6.50/lib/Extutils/Liblist/Kid.pm Sun Apr
26 09:12:00 2009
+++ C:/perl510_M/5.10.0/lib/ExtUtils/Liblist/Kid.pm Sun Apr 26 09:21:40 2009
@@ -267,6 +267,11 @@
push @libpath, split /;/, $ENV{LIB};
}
+ # For the benefit of MinGW:
+ if ($GC and exists $ENV{LIBRARY_PATH} and $ENV{LIBRARY_PATH}) {
+ push @libpath, split /;/, $ENV{LIBRARY_PATH};
+ }
+
foreach (Text::ParseWords::quotewords('\s+', 0, $potential_libs)){
my $thislib = $_;
