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Changes for version 0.20 - 2017-03-04

  • Remove experimental Alien::Base2. Use Alien::Base 0.036 or better instead!

Documentation

Alien author documentation
Alien user documentation
Over-detailed contributing guide
Frequently Asked Questions about Alien::Build
Alien::Build plugin author documentation
Build Alien::Build plugins
Core Alien::Build plugins
Decode Alien::Build plugins
Download Alien::Build plugins
Extract Alien::Build plugins
Fetch Alien::Build plugins
Prefer Alien::Build plugins
Probe Alien::Build plugins

Modules

Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
Alien::Build command sequence
Advanced interpolation engine for Alien builds
Default interpolator for Alien::Build
Alien::Build installer code for ExtUtils::MakeMaker
Plugin base class for Alien::Build
Autoconf plugin for Alien::Build
MSYS plugin for Alien::Build
Core Alien::Build plugin to maintain compatibility with legacy Alien::Base
Plugin to extract links from a directory listing
Plugin to extract links from a directory listing using ftpcopy
Plugin to extract links from HTML
Download negotiation plugin
Plugin to extract a tarball using Archive::Tar
Plugin to extract a tarball using Archive::Tar
Plugin to extract an archive using command line tools
Plugin to extract a downloaded directory to a build directory
Extraction negotiation plugin
LWP plugin for fetching files
LWP plugin for fetching files
Local file plugin for fetching files
Net::FTP plugin for fetching files
Probe system and determine library or tool properties using the pkg-config command line interface
Probe system and determine library or tool properties using PkgConfig::LibPkgConf
Package configuration negotiation plugin
Probe system and determine library or tool properties using PkgConfig.pm
Plugin to sort candidates by most recent first
Probe for system libraries by guessing with ExtUtils::CBuilder
Probe for tools or commands already available
Probe for GnuWin32 packages using the Windows registry
Private utility functions for Alien::Build
Specification for defining an external dependency for CPAN

Provides

in lib/Alien/Build/Interpolate.pm
in lib/Alien/Build.pm
in lib/Alien/Build/Plugin.pm
in lib/Alien/Build.pm