Alien::Build::Plugin::Build::Make - Make plugin for Alien::Build
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Copyright And License
This software is copyright (c) 2011-2022 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.
perl v5.40.0 2024-11-15 Alien::Build::Plugin::Build::Make(3pm)
Description
By default Alien::Build provides a helper for the "make" that is used by Perl and ExtUtils::MakeMaker
itself. This is handy, because it is the one make that you can mostly guarantee that you will have.
Unfortunately it may be a "make" that isn't supported by the library or tool that you are trying to
alienize. This is mostly a problem on Windows, where the supported "make"s for years were Microsoft's
"nmake" and Sun's "dmake", which many open source projects do not use. This plugin will alter the
alienfile recipe to use a different "make". It may (as in the case of "gmake" / Alien::gmake)
automatically download and install an alienized version of that "make" if it is not already installed.
This plugin should NOT be used with other plugins that replace the "make" helper, like
Alien::Build::Plugin::Build::CMake, Alien::Build::Plugin::Build::Autoconf,
Alien::Build::Plugin::Build::MSYS. This plugin is intended instead for projects that use vanilla
makefiles of a specific type.
This plugin is for now distributed separately from Alien::Build, but the intention is for it to soon
become a core plugin for Alien::Build.
Helpers
make
%{make}
This plugin may change the make helper used by your alienfile recipe.
Name
Alien::Build::Plugin::Build::Make - Make plugin for Alien::Build
Properties
make_type
The make type needed by the alienfile recipe:
dmake
Sun's dmake.
gmake
GNU Make.
nmake
Microsoft's nmake. It comes with Visual C++.
umake
Any UNIX "make" Usually either BSD or GNU Make.
Synopsis
use alienfile;
# For a recipe that requires GNU Make
plugin 'Build::Make' => 'gmake';
Version
version 2.84
