The base_dir statement is deprecated. It persists to support tests which want to place their generated output in out of the way places for clutter reduction and easier cleanup.
base_dir
If you do use it, it will only affect initial generation with -c. Then it specifies the parent of the build directory. By default that is the current directory.
The base_dir must already exist. To also control the name of the build dir, use the deprecated app_dir (but please don't).
app_dir
To see an example, build:
bigtop -c example.bigtop all
Note that the build directory is called useless_dir instead of Kids.
useless_dir
Kids
To install Bigtop, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Bigtop
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Bigtop
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.