On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:12:41AM -0400, Jerry D. Hedden wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:17 AM, O. STeffen BEYer <ost...@gmail.com> wrote: > > what would be the best way to detect whether a working C compiler is > > available at build time of a module (i.e., in Makefile.PL)? > See the Makefile.PL for the 'threads' module. I have reused this > technique in several other modules and it works well.
If all you need is a compiler, then that's the way to go. If what you want to do is compile some stuff and link it to some other stuff, then I'd use Devel::CheckLib, which will check for both a compiler, the necessary libraries/headers, and a working linker. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence [OS X] appeals to me as a monk, a user, a compiler-of-apps, a sometime coder, and an easily amused primate with a penchant for those that are pretty, colorful, and make nice noises. -- Dan Birchall, in The Monastery