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"BUILDING AN APPLICATION FROM SCRATCH

If your application requires non-standard C or XS extensions, APPerl must be built from scratch as it does not support dynamic libraries, only static linking. Note, this process can only be completed on Linux as building the Cosmopolitan Libc from scratch is only supported on Linux and APPerl uses the unix-like Configure to configure perl."--Perl::Dist::APPerl

From the full release of APPerl, perl v5.36.0 built with all default modules and C extensions (https://computoid.com/APPerl/):

> perl.com -v

This is perl 5, version 36, subversion 0 (v5.36.0) built for x86_64-co
+smo
(with 3 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2022, Larry Wall

...
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Details:

> perl.com -V

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 36 subversion 0) configuration
+:
  Commit id: b22da6b83c37604132694ead0bdcf61690f74a53
  Platform:
    osname=cosmo
    osvers=
    archname=x86_64-cosmo
    uname='linux fv-az28-460 5.15.0-1023-azure #29~20.04.1-ubuntu smp 
+wed oct 26 19:18:25 utc 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 gnulinux '
    config_args='-Dprefix=/zip -Uversiononly -Dmyhostname=cosmo -Dmydo
+main=invalid -Doptimize=-Os -de -Dcf_by=Gavin Hayes -Dcf_email=gavin@
+computoid.com'
    hint=recommended
    useposix=true
    d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=undef
    usemultiplicity=undef
    use64bitint=define
    use64bitall=define
    uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n
    default_inc_excludes_dot=define
  Compiler:
    cc='/home/runner/work/Perl-Dist-APPerl/Perl-Dist-APPerl/cosmopolit
+an/o/third_party/gcc/bin/x86_64-linux-musl-gcc'
    ccflags ='-static -nostdlib -nostdinc -fno-pie -no-pie -mno-red-zo
+ne -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-stack-protector -pg -mnop-mcount -mno
+-tls-direct-seg-refs -I /home/runner/work/Perl-Dist-APPerl/Perl-Dist-
+APPerl/cosmopolitan -include /home/runner/work/Perl-Dist-APPerl/Perl-
+Dist-APPerl/cosmopolitan/libc/integral/normalize.inc -isystem /home/r
+unner/work/Perl-Dist-APPerl/Perl-Dist-APPerl/cosmopolitan/libc/isyste
+m -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2'
    optimize='-Os'
    cppflags='-nostdinc -fno-pie -no-pie -mno-red-zone -fno-omit-frame
+-pointer -fno-stack-protector -pg -mnop-mcount -mno-tls-direct-seg-re
+fs -I /home/runner/work/Perl-Dist-APPerl/Perl-Dist-APPerl/cosmopolita
+n -include /home/runner/work/Perl-Dist-APPerl/Perl-Dist-APPerl/cosmop
+olitan/libc/integral/normalize.inc -isystem /home/runner/work/Perl-Di
+st-APPerl/Perl-Dist-APPerl/cosmopolitan/libc/isystem -fwrapv -fno-str
+ict-aliasing -pipe'
    ccversion=''
    gccversion='9.2.0'
    gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4
    longsize=8
    ptrsize=8
    doublesize=8
    byteorder=12345678
    doublekind=3
    d_longlong=define
    longlongsize=8
    d_longdbl=define
    longdblsize=16
    longdblkind=3
    ivtype='long'
    ivsize=8
    nvtype='double'
    nvsize=8
    Off_t='off_t'
    lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8
    prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='ld'
    ldflags ='-static -nostdlib -nostdinc -fno-pie -no-pie -mno-red-zo
+ne -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-stack-protector -pg -mnop-mcount -mno
+-tls-direct-seg-refs -Wl,--gc-sections -fuse-ld=bfd -Wl,-T,/home/runn
+er/work/Perl-Dist-APPerl/Perl-Dist-APPerl/cosmopolitan/o//ape/public/
+ape.lds /home/runner/work/Perl-Dist-APPerl/Perl-Dist-APPerl/cosmopoli
+tan/o//libc/crt/crt.o /home/runner/work/Perl-Dist-APPerl/Perl-Dist-AP
+Perl/cosmopolitan/o//ape/ape-no-modify-self.o'
    libpth= 
    libs=/home/runner/work/Perl-Dist-APPerl/Perl-Dist-APPerl/cosmopoli
+tan/o//cosmopolitan.a
    perllibs=/home/runner/work/Perl-Dist-APPerl/Perl-Dist-APPerl/cosmo
+politan/o//cosmopolitan.a
    libc=
    so=none
    useshrplib=false
    libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_none.xs
    dlext=none
    d_dlsymun=undef
    ccdlflags=''
    cccdlflags=''
    lddlflags=''


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options:
    HAS_TIMES
    PERLIO_LAYERS
    PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE
    PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
    PERL_OP_PARENT
    PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV
    USE_64_BIT_ALL
    USE_64_BIT_INT
    USE_LARGE_FILES
    USE_LOCALE
    USE_LOCALE_COLLATE
    USE_LOCALE_CTYPE
    USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC
    USE_LOCALE_TIME
    USE_PERLIO
    USE_PERL_ATOF
  Locally applied patches:
    G4Vi:cosmo/73ecc6c - https://github.com/G4Vi/perl5/commit/73ecc6c6
+640c61baa00ee91949d502f0fe991db5 various changes to support building 
+with the Cosmopolitan Libc
    G4Vi:cosmo-apperl/9719db2 - https://github.com/G4Vi/perl5/commit/9
+719db2dfbb19454177a31d8ce874a61f17a30da add argv[0] /zip/bin script l
+aunching
    G4Vi:cosmo/2fb034f - https://github.com/G4Vi/perl5/commit/2fb034ff
+b02db2b3ac09706c954704930c620c0b fix Time-HiRes Configure to work for
+ cosmopolitan
  Built under cosmo
  Compiled at Dec  3 2022 05:13:21
  %ENV:
    ...
  @INC:
    /Users/user/lib
    /zip/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.36.0/x86_64-cosmo
    /zip/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.36.0
    /zip/lib/perl5/5.36.0/x86_64-cosmo
    /zip/lib/perl5/5.36.0
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