NAME
Alien::bz2 - Build and make available bz2
VERSION
version 0.16
SYNOPSIS
Build.PL
use Alien::bz2;
use Module::Build;
my $alien = Alien::bz2->new;
my $build = Module::Build->new(
...
extra_compiler_flags => [$alien->cflags],
extra_linker_flags => [$alien->libs],
...
);
$build->create_build_script;
Makefile.PL
use Alien::bz2;
use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
my $alien = Alien::bz2;
WriteMakefile(
...
CCFLAGS => scalar $alien->cflags,
LIBS => [$alien->libs],
);
FFI::Platypus
use Alien::bz2;
use FFI::Platypus;
my $ffi = FFI::Platypus->new(lib => [Alien::bz2->new->dlls]);
$ffi->attach( BZ2_bzlibVersion => [] => 'string' );
DESCRIPTION
If you just want to compress or decompress bzip2 data in Perl you
probably want one of Compress::Bzip2, Compress::Raw::Bzip2 or
IO::Compress::Bzip2.
This distribution installs bz2 so that it can be used by other Perl
distributions. If already installed for your operating system, and it
can be found, this distribution will use the bz2 that comes with your
operating system, otherwise it will download it from the Internet,
build and install it.
If you set the environment variable ALIEN_BZ2 to 'share', this
distribution will ignore any system bz2 found, and build from source
instead. This may be desirable if your operating system comes with a
very old version of bz2 and an upgrade path for the system bz2 is not
possible.
METHODS
cflags
Returns the C compiler flags necessary to build against bz2.
Returns flags as a list in list context and combined into a string in
scalar context.
libs
Returns the library flags necessary to build against bz2.
Returns flags as a list in list context and combined into a string in
scalar context.
dlls
Returns a list of dynamic libraries (usually a list of just one
library) that make up bz2. This can be used for FFI::Raw.
Returns just the first dynamic library found in scalar context.
version
Returns the version of bz2.
install_type
Returns the install type, one of either system or share.
SEE ALSO
Alien::bz2::Installer
Compress::Bzip2
Compress::Raw::Bzip2
IO::Compress::Bzip2
AUTHOR
Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2014 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.