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FFI-CheckLib-0.18
River stage four • 48 direct dependents • 1394 total dependents
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Changes for version 0.18 - 2017-10-25

  • Production version identical to 0.17_02

Changes for version 0.17_02 - 2017-10-14

  • Fix Windows testing regression introduced in 0.17_01

Changes for version 0.17_01 - 2017-10-13

  • Filter out broken and recursive symlinks
  • Better handle symlinked .so files on platforms that support that.
    • Previously, we preferred the longer .so names (ie, libfoo.so.1.2.3) over the shorter .so names (libfoo.so) since the latter is usually a symlink, and the former may have useful "version" information in the filename. That is a problem when a system is using symlinks to indicate a preference, (for example, if there are both libfoo.so.1.2.3, libfoo.so.1.2.4 and libfoo.so is a symlink to one of those).
    • Now we still endevour to return the long .so name, but use the short name to see which one is preferred by the operating system, or user.
    • In the absense of any symlinks to disambiguate two libraries with the same name, we prefer the one with a newer version number. That is libfoo.so.2.3.4 would be preferred over libfoo.so.1.2.3
  • Slightly more consistent diagnostic messages.
  • Added functions: which, where, has_symbols None are exported by default, but may be requested.

Modules

FFI::CheckLib
Check that a library is available for FFI

Examples

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