NAME Alien::Libbz2 - Build and make available bz2 VERSION version 0.24 SYNOPSIS In your Build.PL: use Module::Build; use Alien::Libbz2; my $builder = Module::Build->new( ... configure_requires => { 'Alien::Libbz2' => '0', ... }, extra_compiler_flags => Alien::Libbz2->cflags, extra_linker_flags => Alien::Libbz2->libs, ... ); $build->create_build_script; In your Makefile.PL: use ExtUtils::MakeMaker; use Config; use Alien::Libbz2; WriteMakefile( ... CONFIGURE_REQUIRES => { 'Alien::Libbz2' => '0', }, CCFLAGS => Alien::Libbz2->cflags . " $Config{ccflags}", LIBS => [ Alien::Libbz2->libs ], ... ); In your FFI::Platypus script or module: use FFI::Platypus; use Alien::Libbz2; my $ffi = FFI::Platypus->new( lib => [ Alien::Libbz2->dynamic_libs ], ); In your script or module: use Alien::Libbz2; use Env qw( @PATH ); unshift @PATH, Alien::Libbz2->bin_dir; DESCRIPTION This Alien module provides the necessary compiler and linker flags needed for using libbz2 in XS. METHODS cflags my $cflags = Alien::Libbz2->cflags; Returns the C compiler flags. libs my $libs = Alien::Libbz2->libs; Returns the linker flags. HELPERS bzip2 %{bzip2} Returns the name of the bzip2 command. Usually just bzip2. SEE ALSO Alien::bz2 Another libbz2 Alien module, but not implemented with Alien::Base. Compress::Bzip2 Compress::Raw::Bzip2 IO::Compress::Bzip2 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.