Alien::Build::Plugin::Probe(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Alien::Build::Plugin::Probe(3)

Alien::Build::Plugin::Probe - Probe Alien::Build plugins

version 2.80

look for libraries in known location:

use alienfile;
plugin 'Probe::CBuilder' => (
  cflags => '-I/opt/libfoo/include',
  libs   => '-L/opt/libfoo/lib -lfoo',
);

look for tools in the path:

use alienfile;
plugin 'Probe::CommandLine' => (
  command => 'gzip',
  args    => [ '--version' ],
  match   => qr/gzip/,
  version => qr/gzip ([0-9\.]+)/,
);

Use "vcpkg" for Visual C++ Perl:

use alienfile;
plugin 'Probe::Vcpkg' => 'libffi';

Probe plugins try to find existing libraries and tools already installed on the system. If found they can be used instead of downloading the source from the internet and building.

Use ExtUtils::CBuilder to probe for existing installed library.
Execute commands to probe for existing tools.
Use Win32::Vcpkg to probe for existing installed library.

Alien::Build, Alien::Build::Plugin

Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

Contributors:

Diab Jerius (DJERIUS)

Roy Storey (KIWIROY)

Ilya Pavlov

David Mertens (run4flat)

Mark Nunberg (mordy, mnunberg)

Christian Walde (Mithaldu)

Brian Wightman (MidLifeXis)

Zaki Mughal (zmughal)

mohawk (mohawk2, ETJ)

Vikas N Kumar (vikasnkumar)

Flavio Poletti (polettix)

Salvador Fandiño (salva)

Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar)

Pavel Shaydo (zwon, trinitum)

Kang-min Liu (劉康民, gugod)

Nicholas Shipp (nshp)

Juan Julián Merelo Guervós (JJ)

Joel Berger (JBERGER)

Petr Písař (ppisar)

Lance Wicks (LANCEW)

Ahmad Fatoum (a3f, ATHREEF)

José Joaquín Atria (JJATRIA)

Duke Leto (LETO)

Shoichi Kaji (SKAJI)

Shawn Laffan (SLAFFAN)

Paul Evans (leonerd, PEVANS)

Håkon Hægland (hakonhagland, HAKONH)

nick nauwelaerts (INPHOBIA)

Florian Weimer

This software is copyright (c) 2011-2022 by Graham Ollis.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

2023-07-25 perl v5.38.0