ExtUtils::Miniperl - write the C code for miniperlmain.c and perlmain.c
- use ExtUtils::Miniperl;
- writemain(@directories);
- # or
- writemain($fh, @directories);
- # or
- writemain(\$filename, @directories);
writemain()
takes an argument list of zero or more directories
containing archive
libraries that relate to perl modules and should be linked into a new
perl binary. It writes a corresponding miniperlmain.c or perlmain.c
file that
is a plain C file containing all the bootstrap code to make the
modules associated with the libraries available from within perl.
If the first argument to writemain()
is a reference to a scalar it is
used as the filename to open for output. Any other reference is used as
the filehandle to write to. Otherwise output defaults to STDOUT
.
The typical usage is from within perl's own Makefile (to build perlmain.c) or from regen/miniperlmain.pl (to build miniperlmain.c). So under normal circumstances you won't have to deal with this module directly.