Changes for version 1.45_01 - 2018-06-24

  • Add alt method to Alien::Base. This merges the capabilities from Alien::Role::Alt into core, making that role now obsolete.
  • Add alt_names and alt_exists methods to Alien::Base. This was a capability missing from Alien::Role::Alt
  • Fix bug in Alien::Build::MM where 'make alien_prop_runtime' printed install instead of runtime properties

Changes for version 1.44_01 - 2018-06-20

  • Added Alien::Build::Plugin::Prefer::GoodVersion

Documentation

Authoring an Alien distribution using Alien::Base
Frequently asked questions
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

Base classes for Alien:: modules
Private legacy pkg-config class for Alien::Base
Compiler and linker wrapper for Alien
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
CMake plugin for Alien::Build
MSYS plugin for Alien::Build
Make plugin for Alien::Build
Add dependencies to library and header search path
Core Alien::Build plugin to maintain compatibility with legacy Alien::Base
Core tail setup plugin
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::Zip
Plugin to extract an archive using command line tools
Plugin to extract a downloaded directory to a build directory
Extraction negotiation plugin
Plugin for fetching files using curl
Plugin for fetching files using HTTP::Tiny
Plugin for fetching files using LWP
Plugin for fetching a local file
Plugin for fetching a local directory
Plugin for fetching files using Net::FTP
Plugin for fetching files using wget
Plugin to gather dynamic libraries into a separate directory
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
Convert .pc files into static
Package configuration negotiation plugin
Probe system and determine library or tool properties using PkgConfig.pm
Plugin to filter out known bad versions
Plugin to filter known good versions
Plugin to sort candidates by most recent first
Probe for system libraries by guessing with ExtUtils::CBuilder
Probe for tools or commands already available
Private utility functions for Alien::Build
Very basic version object for Alien::Build
Extend Alien::Base with roles!
Testing tools for Alien modules
Tools for testing Alien::Build + alienfile
Skip a test file unless a C compiler is available
Skip a test file unless FFI::Platypus is available
Run object
A mock alien object for testing
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
in lib/Alien/Build.pm