Re: Using Perl's cc

[Gavin Smith]

On 11 July 2015 at 17:55, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> These look relevant:
>
>   $ perl -V:libperl
>   libperl='libperl520.a';
>
>   $ perl -V:so
>   so='dll';
>
> (The latter because the extension we build -- when we succeed to build
> it -- will have the .dll extension, not the .so extension as on Unix.)

I thought libtool would take care of the file extension, but who knows.

>> If you can get an ExtUtils::MakeMaker makefile working, you could copy
>> what it does. That would be possible, but could be time-consuming. I
>> did that for some parts of the existing Makefile.am. I think that
>> /usr/share/perl5/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm and
>> /usr/share/perl5/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm could be the relevant files. It's
>> "perl Makefile.PL" to create the Makefile.
>
> Not sure what you mean by "get an ExtUtils::MakeMaker makefile
> working".  I already have ExtUtils installed, and the files you
> mention are present.  But what should I do with them?

If it successfully builds an extension library, you can look at what
commands it did to do that and copy them.