NAME Alien::Libarchive - Build and make available libarchive VERSION version 0.14 SYNOPSIS Build.PL use Alien::Libarchive; use Module::Build; my $alien = Alien::Libarchive->new; my $build = Module::Build->new( ... extra_compiler_flags => $alien->cflags, extra_linker_flags => $alien->libs, ... ); $build->create_build_script Makefile.PL use Alien::Libarchive; use ExtUtils::MakeMaker; my $alien = Alien::Libarchive->new; WriteMakefile( ... CFLAGS => Alien::Libarchive->cflags, LIBS => Alien::Libarchive->libs, ); FFI use Alien::Libarchive; use FFI::Sweet qw( ffi_lib ); ffi_lib(Alien::Libarchive->new->libs); DESCRIPTION This distribution installs libarchive so that it can be used by other Perl distributions. If already installed for your operating system, and if it can find it, this distribution will use the libarchive that comes with your operating system, otherwise it will download it from the Internet, build and install it. If you set the environment variable ALIEN_LIBARCHIVE to 'share', this distribution will ignore any system libarchive found, and build from source instead. This may be desirable if your operating system comes with a very old version of libarchive and an upgrade path for the system libarchive is not possible. Requirements operating system install The development headers and libraries for libarchive Debian On Debian you can install these with this command: % sudo apt-get install libarchive-dev Cygwin On Cygwin, make sure that this package is installed libarchive-devel FreeBSD libarchive comes with FreeBSD as of version 5.3. from source install A C compiler and any prerequisites for building libarchive. Debian On Debian build-essential should be good enough: % sudo apt-get install build-essential Cygwin On Cygwin, I couldn't get libarchive to build without making a minor tweak to one of the include files. On Cygwin this module will patch libarchive before it attempts to build if it is version 3.1.2. Strawberry Perl For MinGW based Perls (including Strawberry), this module will delegate to Alien::Libarchive::MSWin32. The reason for not supporting MinGW directly in this distribution is because it requires CMake at configure time, and I don't want to make that a prereq everywhere. Probably the easiest way to get this to work is to install CMake binaries from their website, http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html And then install Alien::CMake. METHODS cflags Returns the C compiler flags necessary to build against libarchive. libs Returns the library flags necessary to build against libarchive. CAVEATS Debian Linux and FreeBSD (9.0) have been tested the most in development of this distribution. Patches to improve portability and platform support would be eagerly appreciated. If you reinstall this distribution, you may need to reinstall any distributions that depend on it as well. SEE ALSO Archive::Libarchive::XS Archive::Libarchive::FFI AUTHOR Graham Ollis COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2014 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.