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NAME

Test::Alien::Synthetic - A mock alien object for testing

VERSION

version 2.84

SYNOPSIS

my $alien = synthetic {
cflags => '-I/foo/bar/include',
libs => '-L/foo/bar/lib -lbaz',
};
alien_ok $alien;
done_testing;

DESCRIPTION

This class is used to model a synthetic Alien class that implements the minimum Alien::Base interface needed by Test::Alien.

It can be useful if you have a non-Alien::Base based Alien distribution that you need to test.

NOTE: The name of this class may move in the future, so do not refer to this class name directly. Instead create instances of this class using the Test::Alien#synthetic function.

ATTRIBUTES

cflags

String containing the compiler flags

cflags_static

String containing the static compiler flags

libs

String containing the linker and library flags

libs_static

String containing the static linker and library flags

dynamic_libs

List reference containing the dynamic libraries.

bin_dir

Tool binary directory.

runtime_prop

Runtime properties.

EXAMPLE

Here is a complete example using Alien::Libarchive which is a non-Alien::Base based Alien distribution.

use strict;
my $real = Alien::Libarchive->new;
my $alien = synthetic {
cflags => scalar $real->cflags,
libs => scalar $real->libs,
dynamic_libs => [$real->dlls],
};
alien_ok $alien;
xs_ok do { local $/; <DATA> }, with_subtest {
my($module) = @_;
my $ptr = $module->archive_read_new;
like $ptr, qr{^[0-9]+$};
$module->archive_read_free($ptr);
};
ffi_ok { symbols => [qw( archive_read_new )] }, with_subtest {
my($ffi) = @_;
my $new = $ffi->function(archive_read_new => [] => 'opaque');
my $free = $ffi->function(archive_read_close => ['opaque'] => 'void');
my $ptr = $new->();
like $ptr, qr{^[0-9]+$};
$free->($ptr);
};
done_testing;
__DATA__
#include "EXTERN.h"
#include "perl.h"
#include "XSUB.h"
#include <archive.h>
MODULE = TA_MODULE PACKAGE = TA_MODULE
void *archive_read_new(class);
const char *class;
CODE:
RETVAL = (void*) archive_read_new();
OUTPUT:
RETVAL
void archive_read_free(class, ptr);
const char *class;
void *ptr;
CODE:
archive_read_free(ptr);

SEE ALSO

Test::Alien

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)

Florian Weimer

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011-2022 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.