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PDL-2.095
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/ PDL::Core::Dev

NAME

PDL::Core::Dev - PDL development module

DESCRIPTION

This module encapsulates most of the stuff useful for PDL development and is often used from within Makefile.PL's.

SYNOPSIS

use PDL::Core::Dev;

FUNCTIONS

isbigendian

Is the machine big or little endian?

print "Your machins is big endian.\n" if isbigendian();

returns 1 if the machine is big endian, 0 if little endian, or dies if neither. It uses the byteorder element of perl's %Config array.

my $retval = isbigendian();

a perl configure clone

if (trylink 'libGL', '', 'char glBegin(); glBegin();', '-lGL') {
  $libs = '-lGLU -lGL';
  $have_GL = 1;
} else {
  $have_GL = 0;
}
$maybe =
  trylink 'libwhatever', '', $body, $libs, $cflags,
      {MakeMaker=>1, Hide=>0, Clean=>1};

Try to link some C-code making up the body of a function with a given set of library specifiers

return 1 if successful, 0 otherwise

trylink $infomsg, $include, $progbody, $libs [,$cflags,{OPTIONS}];

Takes 4 + 2 optional arguments.

  • an informational message to print (can be empty)

  • any commands to be included at the top of the generated C program (typically something like #include "mylib.h")

  • the body of the program (in function main)

  • library flags to use for linking. Preprocessing by MakeMaker should be performed as needed (see options and example).

  • compilation flags. For example, something like -I/usr/local/lib. Optional argument. Empty if omitted.

  • OPTIONS

    MakeMaker

    Preprocess library strings in the way MakeMaker does things. This is advisable to ensure that your code will actually work after the link specs have been processed by MakeMaker.

    Hide

    Controls if linking output etc is hidden from the user or not. On by default but overridable with environment variable HIDE_TRYLINK if set.

    Clean

    Remove temporary files. Enabled by default. You might want to switch it off during debugging.

generate_core_flags

prints on STDOUT XS text with core flags, for Core.xs.

got_complex_version

PDL::Core::Dev::got_complex_version($func_name, $num_params)

For a given function appearing in C99's complex.h, will return a boolean of whether the system being compiled on has the complex version of that. E.g. for sin, will test whether csinl exists (before 2.069, would only check for csin, causing build failures on non-C99 compliant libc which mandates long-double versions).