NAME

Alien::xz - Find or build xz

VERSION

version 0.07

SYNOPSIS

In your Build.PL:

use Module::Build;
use Alien::xz;
my $builder = Module::Build->new(
  ...
  configure_requires => {
    'Alien::xz' => '0',
    ...
  },
  extra_compiler_flags => Alien::xz->cflags,
  extra_linker_flags   => Alien::xz->libs,
  ...
);

$build->create_build_script;

In your Makefile.PL:

use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
use Config;
use Alien::xz;

WriteMakefile(
  ...
  CONFIGURE_REQUIRES => {
    'Alien::xz' => '0',
  },
  CCFLAGS => Alien::xz->cflags . " $Config{ccflags}",
  LIBS    => [ Alien::xz->libs ],
  ...
);

In your script or module:

use Alien::xz;
use Env qw( @PATH );

unshift @PATH, Alien::xz->bin_dir;

DESCRIPTION

This package can be used by other CPAN modules that require xz, the compression utility, or liblzma, which comes with it.

HELPERS

xz

%{xz}

Returns the name of the xz command. Usually just xz.

SEE ALSO

Alien, Alien::Base, Alien::Build::Manual::AlienUser

AUTHOR

Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

Contributors:

Dylan William Hardison (dylanwh, DHARDISON)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2017 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.