NAME Alien::Libarchive3 - Find or install libarchive version 3.x or better VERSION version 0.28 SYNOPSIS In your Build.PL: use Module::Build; use Alien::Libarchive3; my $builder = Module::Build->new( ... configure_requires => { 'Alien::Libarchive3' => '0', ... }, extra_compiler_flags => Alien::Libarchive3->cflags, extra_linker_flags => Alien::Libarchive3->libs, ... ); $build->create_build_script; In your Makefile.PL: use ExtUtils::MakeMaker; use Config; use Alien::Libarchive3; WriteMakefile( ... CONFIGURE_REQUIRES => { 'Alien::Libarchive3' => '0', }, CCFLAGS => Alien::Libarchive3->cflags . " $Config{ccflags}", LIBS => [ Alien::Libarchive3->libs ], ... ); In your script or module: use Alien::Libarchive3; use Env qw( @PATH ); unshift @ENV, Alien::Libarchive3->bin_dir; In your FFI::Platypus script or module: use FFI::Platypus; use Alien::Libarchive3; my $ffi = FFI::Platypus->new( lib => [ Alien::Libarchive3->dynamic_libs ], ); DESCRIPTION This distribution provides libarchive so that it can be used by other Perl distributions that are on CPAN. It does this by first trying to detect an existing install of libarchive on your system. If found it will use that. If it cannot be found, the source code will be downloaded from the internet and it will be installed in a private share location for the use of other modules. The intention is for this to eventually replace Alien::Libarchive SEE ALSO Alien, Alien::Base, Alien::Build::Manual::AlienUser AUTHOR Graham Ollis 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.