Michael Wong3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hi all! I'm absolutely new at extending perl, so please be patient
>with my question.
>
>I have some absolutely great C code whose functionality (hardware
>control) I'd love to bring to Perl. It has its own very elaborate
>Makefile, which I use to produce a C library.
What does it call the C library?
>For my module, I
>wrote its Makefile.PL as:
>
>WriteMakefile(
> # the stuff that h2xs normally puts in
>
> 'MYEXTLIB' => 'src/my_lib$(LIB_EXT)'
>);
>
>sub MY::postamble {
>'
>$(MYEXTLIB): src/Makefile
> cd src && make my_lib$(LIB_EXT)
>';
>}
>
>would work.
It should. Provided src/Makefile builds something called my_lib$(LIB_EXT)
(i.e. my_lib.a)
>But when I test my new spiffy module, it complains
>that the method call I made is an unresolved symbol.
What is the unresolved symbol?
Does your C code call _another_ library as well?
>
>So in summary, how does one link a .a file that's not made by
>Makefile.PL for the C code?
>
>I apologize for the vagueness of the question, but I'm think
>that more details would only obscure the nature of the problem.
>
>- m.
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