extutils::mm_win32(3pm)
NAME
ExtUtils::MM_Win32 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker
SYNOPSIS
use ExtUtils::MM_Win32; # Done internally by ExtUtils::MakeMaker if needed
DESCRIPTION
See ExtUtils::MM_Unix for a documentation of the methods provided
there. This package overrides the implementation of these methods, not
the semantics.
Overridden methods
- dlsyms
replace_manpage_separator - Changes the path separator with .
- maybe_command
- Since Windows has nothing as simple as an executable bit, we check the file extension.
- The PATHEXT env variable will be used to get a list of extensions
that might indicate a command, otherwise .com, .exe, .bat and .cmd will be used by default. - init_DIRFILESEP
- Using \ for Windows.
- init_others
- Override some of the Unix specific commands with portable ExtUtils::Command ones.
- Also provide defaults for LD and AR in case the %Config values
aren't set. - LDLOADLIBS's default is changed to $Config{libs}.
- Adjustments are made for Borland's quirks needing -L to come first.
- init_platform
- Add MM_Win32_VERSION.
- platform_constants
special_targets - Add .USESHELL target for dmake.
- static_lib
- Changes how to run the linker.
- The rest is duplicate code from MM_Unix. Should move the linker
code to its own method. - dynamic_lib
- Complicated stuff for Win32 that I don't understand. :(
- extra_clean_files
- Clean out some extra dll.{base,exp} files which might be generated by gcc. Otherwise, take out all *.pdb files.
- init_linker
perl_script - Checks for the perl program under several common perl extensions.
- xs_o
- This target is stubbed out. Not sure why.
- pasthru
- All we send is -nologo to nmake to prevent it from printing its
damned banner. - oneliner
- These are based on what command.com does on Win98. They may be
wrong for other Windows shells, I don't know. - cd dmake can handle Unix style cd'ing but nmake (at least 1.5) cannot.
- It wants:
cd dir
command
another_command
cd .. - NOTE This cd can only go one level down. So far this sufficient for what MakeMaker needs.
- max_exec_len
- nmake 1.50 limits command length to 2048 characters.
- os_flavor
- Windows is Win32.