NAME
Module::Build::Tiny - A tiny replacement for Module::Build
VERSION
version 0.051
SYNOPSIS
use Module::Build::Tiny;
Build_PL();
DESCRIPTION
Many Perl distributions use a Build.PL file instead of a Makefile.PL file to drive distribution configuration, build, test and installation. Traditionally, Build.PL uses Module::Build as the underlying build system. This module provides a simple, lightweight, drop-in replacement.
Whereas Module::Build has over 6,700 lines of code; this module has less than 200, yet supports the features needed by most distributions.
Supported
Pure Perl distributions
Building XS or C
Recursive test files
MYMETA
Man page generation
Generated code from PL files
Module sharedirs
Dynamic prerequisites
Not Supported
HTML documentation generation
Extending Module::Build::Tiny
Directory structure
Your .pm, .xs and .pod files must be in lib/. Any executables must be in script/. Test files must be in t/. Dist sharedirs must be in share/, module sharedirs are under module-share (e.g. module-share/Foo-Bar for module Foo::Bar
).
.c
files in the src/ are compiled together with the .xs file matching the distribution name.
USAGE
These all work pretty much like their Module::Build equivalents.
perl Build.PL
Build [ build ]
Build test
Build install
This supports the following options:
verbose
install_base
installdirs
prefix
install_path
destdir
uninst
config
pure-perl
create_packlist
AUTHORING
This module doesn't support authoring. To develop modules using Module::Build::Tiny, usage of Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ModuleBuildTiny or App::ModuleBuildTiny is recommended.
CONFIG FILE AND ENVIRONMENT
Options can be provided in the PERL_MB_OPT
environment variable the same way they can with Module::Build. This should be done during the configuration stage.
Incompatibilities
Argument parsing
Module::Build has an extremely permissive way of argument handling, Module::Build::Tiny only supports a (sane) subset of that. In particular,
./Build destdir=/foo
does not work, you will need to pass it as./Build --destdir=/foo
..modulebuildrc
Module::Build::Tiny does not support .modulebuildrc files. In particular, this means that versions of local::lib older than 1.006008 may break with
ERROR: Can't create /usr/local/somepath
. If the output ofperl -Mlocal::lib
containsMODULEBUILDRC
but notPERL_MB_OPT
, you will need to upgrade it to resolve this issue.
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
Leon Timmermans <leont@cpan.org>
David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Leon Timmermans, David Golden.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.