Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MakeMaker::Awesome - A more awesome MakeMaker plugin for Dist::Zilla
Dist::Zilla's MakeMaker plugin is limited, if you want to stray from the marked path and do something that would normally be done in a package MY section or otherwise run custom code in your Makefile.PL you're out of luck.
package MY
This plugin is 100% compatable with Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MakeMaker, but if you need something more complex you can just subclass it:
Then, in your dist.ini:
;; Replace [MakeMaker] ;[MakeMaker] [MakeMaker::Awesome]
More complex use, adding a package MY section to your Makefile.PL:
In your dist.ini:
[=inc::MyDistMakeMaker / MyDistMakeMaker]
Then in your inc/MyDistMakeMaker.pm, real example from Hailo (which has [=inc::HailoMakeMaker / HailoMakeMaker] in its dist.ini):
[=inc::HailoMakeMaker / HailoMakeMaker]
package inc::HailoMakeMaker; use Moose; extends 'Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MakeMaker::Awesome'; override _build_MakeFile_PL_template => sub { my ($self) = @_; my $template = super(); $template .= <<'TEMPLATE'; package MY; sub test { my $inherited = shift->SUPER::test(@_); # Run tests with Moose and Mouse $inherited =~ s/^test_dynamic :: pure_all\n\t(.*?)\n/test_dynamic :: pure_all\n\tANY_MOOSE=Mouse $1\n\tANY_MOOSE=Moose $1\n/m; return $inherited; } TEMPLATE return $template; }; __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable;
Or maybe you're writing an XS distro and want to pass custom arguments to WriteMakefile(), here's an example of adding a LIBS argument in re::engine::PCRE:
WriteMakefile()
LIBS
package inc::PCREMakeMaker; use Moose; extends 'Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MakeMaker::Awesome'; override _build_WriteMakefile_args => sub { +{ # Add LIBS => to WriteMakefile() args %{ super() }, LIBS => [ '-lpcre' ], } }; __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable;
And another example from re::engine::Plan9:
package inc::Plan9MakeMaker; use Moose; extends 'Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MakeMaker::Awesome'; override _build_WriteMakefile_args => sub { my ($self) = @_; our @DIR = qw(libutf libfmt libregexp); our @OBJ = map { s/\.c$/.o/; $_ } grep { ! /test/ } glob "lib*/*.c"; return +{ %{ super() }, DIR => [ @DIR ], INC => join(' ', map { "-I$_" } @DIR), # This used to be '-shared lib*/*.o' but that doesn't work on Win32 LDDLFLAGS => "-shared @OBJ", }; }; __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable;
If you have custom code in your ExtUtils::MakeMaker-based Makefile.PL that Dist::Zilla can't replace via its default facilities you'll be able replace it by using this module.
Even if your Makefile.PL isn't ExtUtils::MakeMaker-based you should be able to override it. You'll just have to provide a new "_build_MakeFile_PL_template".
These are the methods you can currently override in your custom inc/ module. The work that this module does is entirely done in small modular methods that can be overriden in your subclass. Here are some of the highlights:
Returns Text::Template string used to construct the Makefile.PL.
A HashRef of arguments that'll be passed to ExtUtils::MakeMaker's WriteMakefile function.
HashRef
WriteMakefile
Takes the return value of "_build_WriteMakefile_args" and constructs a Str that'll be included in the Makefile.PL by "_build_MakeFile_PL_template".
The test/bin/share dirs and exe_files. These'll all be passed to /"_build_WriteMakefile_args" later.
An ArrayRef[Str] with two elements to be used by "_build_MakeFile_PL_template". The first will declare your ShareDir and the second will add a magic package MY section to install it. Deep magic.
ArrayRef[Str]
The main entry point is setup_installer via the Dist::Zilla::Role::InstallTool role. There are also other magic Dist::Zilla roles, check the source for more info.
setup_installer
This error from Dist::Zilla means that you've used both [MakeMaker] and [MakeMaker::Awesome]. You've either included MakeMaker directly in dist.ini, or you have plugin bundle that includes it. See @Filter for how to filter it out.
[MakeMaker]
[MakeMaker::Awesome]
MakeMaker
This plugin would suck less if Dist::Zilla didn't use a INI-based config system so you could add a stuff like this in your main configuration file like you can with Module::Install.
The .ini file format can only support key-value pairs whereas any complex use of ExtUtils::MakeMaker requires running custom Perl code and passing complex data structures to WriteMakefile.
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avar@cpan.org>
Copyright 2010 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avar@cpan.org>
This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MakeMaker::Awesome, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MakeMaker::Awesome
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MakeMaker::Awesome
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.