ExtUtils::MM_Win32 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker

• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
  • Overridden methods

NAME

ExtUtils::MM_Win32 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker

SYNOPSIS

use ExtUtils::MM_Win32; # Done internally by ExtUtils::MakeMaker if needed

DESCRIPTION

See ExtUtils::MM_Unix for a documentation of the methods provided there. This package overrides the implementation of these methods, not the semantics.

Overridden methods

• dlsyms
• replace_manpage_separator

  Changes the path separator with .

• maybe_command

  Since Windows has nothing as simple as an executable bit, we check the file extension.

  The PATHEXT env variable will be used to get a list of extensions that might indicate a command, otherwise .com, .exe, .bat and .cmd will be used by default.

• init_DIRFILESEP

  Using \ for Windows, except for "gmake" where it is /.

• init_tools

  Override some of the slower, portable commands with Windows specific ones.

• init_others

  Override the default link and compile tools.

  LDLOADLIBS's default is changed to $Config{libs}.

  Adjustments are made for Borland's quirks needing -L to come first.

• init_platform

  Add MM_Win32_VERSION.

• platform_constants
• constants

  Add MAXLINELENGTH for dmake before all the constants are output.

• special_targets

  Add .USESHELL target for dmake.

• static_lib

  Changes how to run the linker.

  The rest is duplicate code from MM_Unix. Should move the linker code to its own method.

• dynamic_lib

  Complicated stuff for Win32 that I don't understand. :(

• extra_clean_files

  Clean out some extra dll.{base,exp} files which might be generated by gcc. Otherwise, take out all *.pdb files.

• init_linker
• perl_script

  Checks for the perl program under several common perl extensions.

• quote_dep
• xs_o

  This target is stubbed out. Not sure why.

• pasthru

  All we send is -nologo to nmake to prevent it from printing its damned banner.

• arch_check (override)

  Normalize all arguments for consistency of comparison.

• oneliner

  These are based on what command.com does on Win98. They may be wrong for other Windows shells, I don't know.

• cd

  dmake can handle Unix style cd'ing but nmake (at least 1.5) cannot. It wants:

  cd dir1\dir2
  command
  another_command
  cd ..\..
  

• max_exec_len

  nmake 1.50 limits command length to 2048 characters.

• os_flavor

  Windows is Win32.

• cflags

  Defines the PERLDLL symbol if we are configured for static building since all code destined for the perl5xx.dll must be compiled with the PERLDLL symbol defined.