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NAME

Perl::Dist::WiX::Asset::PAR - "Binary .par package" asset for a Win32 Perl

SYNOPSIS

my $binary = Perl::Dist::Asset::PAR->new(
    name       => 'dmake',
);

# Or usually more like this:
$perl_dist_wix_obj->install_par(
  name => 'Perl-Dist-PrepackagedPAR-libexpat',
  url  => 'http://parrepository.de/Perl-Dist-PrepackagedPAR-libexpat-2.0.1-MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-anyversion.par',
);

DESCRIPTION

Perl::Dist::WiX::Asset::PAR is a data class that provides encapsulation and error checking for a "binary .par package" to be installed in a Perl::Dist::WiX-based Perl distribution.

It is normally created by the install_par method of Perl::Dist::WiX (and other things that call it).

The specification of the location to retrieve the package is done via the standard mechanism implemented in Perl::Dist::WiX::Asset.

The install_to argument of the Perl::Dist::WiX::Asset::Library asset is not supported by the PAR asset.

See "PAR FILE FORMAT EXTENSIONS" below for details on how non-Perl binaries are installed.

METHODS

This class is a Perl::Dist::WiX::Role::Asset and shares its API.

new

The new constructor takes a series of parameters, validates them and returns a new Perl::Dist::Asset::PAR object.

It inherits all the parameters described in the Perl::Dist::WiX::Asset new method documentation, and adds an additional parameter.

name

The required name param is the logical name of the package for the purposes of identification. A sensible default would be the name of the primary Perl module in the package.

The new constructor returns a Perl::Dist::WiX::Asset::PAR object, or throws an exception (dies) if an invalid param is provided.

PAR FILE FORMAT EXTENSIONS

This concerns packagers of .par binaries only.

A .par usually mostly contains the blib/ directory after making a Perl module. For use with Perl::Dist::Asset::PAR, there are currently three more subdirectories which will be installed:

blib/c/lib     => goes into the c/lib library directory for non-Perl extensions
blib/c/bin     => goes into the c/bin executable/dll directory for non-Perl extensions
blib/c/include => goes into the c/include header directory for non-Perl extensions
blib/c/share   => goes into the c/share share directory for non-Perl extensions

SUPPORT

Bugs should be reported via the CPAN bug tracker at

http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Perl-Dist-WiX

For other issues, contact the author.

AUTHOR

Curtis Jewell <csjewell@cpan.org>

SEE ALSO

Perl::Dist, Perl::Dist::Inno, Perl::Dist::Asset

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2009 Curtis Jewell.

Copyright 2008 Steffen Mueller, borrowing heavily from Adam Kennedy's code.

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

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.