NAME

Alien::Build::Plugin::Probe - Probe Alien::Build plugins

VERSION

version 2.46

SYNOPSIS

look for libraries in known location:

use alienfile;
plugin 'Probe::CBuilder' => (
  cflags => '-I/opt/libfoo/include',
  libs   => '-L/opt/libfoo/lib -lfoo',
);

look for tools in the path:

use alienfile;
plugin 'Probe::CommandLine' => (
  command => 'gzip',
  args    => [ '--version' ],
  match   => qr/gzip/,
  version => qr/gzip ([0-9\.]+)/,
);

DESCRIPTION

Probe plugins try to find existing libraries and tools already installed on the system. If found they can be used instead of downloading the source from the internet and building.

Alien::Build::Plugin::Probe::CBuilder

Alien::Build::Plugin::Probe::CommandLine

SEE ALSO

Alien::Build, Alien::Build::Plugin

AUTHOR

Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

Contributors:

Diab Jerius (DJERIUS)

Roy Storey (KIWIROY)

Ilya Pavlov

David Mertens (run4flat)

Mark Nunberg (mordy, mnunberg)

Christian Walde (Mithaldu)

Brian Wightman (MidLifeXis)

Zaki Mughal (zmughal)

mohawk (mohawk2, ETJ)

Vikas N Kumar (vikasnkumar)

Flavio Poletti (polettix)

Salvador Fandiño (salva)

Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar)

Pavel Shaydo (zwon, trinitum)

Kang-min Liu (劉康民, gugod)

Nicholas Shipp (nshp)

Juan Julián Merelo Guervós (JJ)

Joel Berger (JBERGER)

Petr Písař (ppisar)

Lance Wicks (LANCEW)

Ahmad Fatoum (a3f, ATHREEF)

José Joaquín Atria (JJATRIA)

Duke Leto (LETO)

Shoichi Kaji (SKAJI)

Shawn Laffan (SLAFFAN)

Paul Evans (leonerd, PEVANS)

Håkon Hægland (hakonhagland, HAKONH)

nick nauwelaerts (INPHOBIA)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011-2020 by Graham Ollis.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

cpanm Alien::Build

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Alien::Build