On Nov 15, 2005, at 8:29 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
Turns out that things are quite hunky-dory yet. We're compiling,
at least -- but the behavior isn't what I thought it was, and it's
not optimum.
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I think it boils down to conflict between the two Makefile.PLs. In
reality, you only need the top one. For example, Gtk2 has a shedload
of xs files in a subdirectory, but only one Makefile.PL, in the top
directory.
IIRC, the contents are OBJECT are used as the default for LDFROM,
which is used as the list of objects to link into the object that
will be loaded by your module. That is, you should be able to do this:
WriteMakefile(
NAME => 'MyModule',
...
INC => '-Isrc', # so we can see the extra headers
OBJECT => 'MyModule$(OBJ_EXT) src/extrafile1$(OBJ_EXT) src/
extrafile2$(OBJ_EXT)',
...
);
and it should all Just Work. To clarify, I would expect the example
above to build MyModule.so from MyModule.o, src/extrafile1.o, and src/
extrafile2.o after building the .o files from the .c files, and after
building MyModule.c from MyModule.xs. No fiddling with extra libs or
extra makefiles should be necessary.
Gtk2 uses this scheme to build a single Gtk2.so from almost two
hundred xs/*.xs files. We just dump a whole slew of filenames into
OBJECT and let MakeMaker and Make do the rest.
On win32 there is(was?) an issue with MakeMaker that resulted in some
pain and suffering when building Gtk2 --- the source files in the
subdirectory would be compiled into objects in the current directory,
so the link command would fail. A bit of extra magic fixed that; you
can find it as the const_ccmd() sub in the MY package in
Glib::MakeHelper. Look near the end: http://search.cpan.org/src/TSCH/
Glib-1.101/MakeHelper.pm
Hope that helps...
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