NAME Alien::Libxml2 - Install the C libxml2 library on your system VERSION version 0.12 SYNOPSIS In your Build.PL: use Module::Build; use Alien::Libxml2; my $builder = Module::Build->new( ... configure_requires => { 'Alien::Libxml2' => '0', ... }, extra_compiler_flags => Alien::Libxml2->cflags, extra_linker_flags => Alien::Libxml2->libs, ... ); $build->create_build_script; In your Makefile.PL: use ExtUtils::MakeMaker; use Config; use Alien::Libxml2; WriteMakefile( ... CONFIGURE_REQUIRES => { 'Alien::Libxml2' => '0', }, CCFLAGS => Alien::Libxml2->cflags . " $Config{ccflags}", LIBS => [ Alien::Libxml2->libs ], ... ); In your FFI::Platypus script or module: use FFI::Platypus; use Alien::Libxml2; my $ffi = FFI::Platypus->new( lib => [ Alien::Libxml2->dynamic_libs ], ); DESCRIPTION This module provides libxml2 for other modules to use. There was an already existing Alien::LibXML, but it uses the older Alien::Build::ModuleBuild and has not been actively maintained for a while. CAVEATS libxml2 has some optional prereqs, including zlib and iconv. For a share install you will want to make sure that these are installed prior to installing Alien::Libxml2 if you want to make use of features relying on them. For a system install, you want to make sure the development packages for libxml2, zlib and iconv are installed if libxml2 has been configured to use them, otherwise XML::LibXML will not install as expected. If the tests for this module fail with a missing iconv.h or zlib.h, then this is likely the reason. SEE ALSO Alien::LibXML Unmaintained Alien for the same library. AUTHOR Author: Graham Ollis Contributors: Shlomi Fish (shlomif) COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2013 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.