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Re: Testing for compiler on Win32by PodMaster (Abbot) |
on Dec 06, 2002 at 19:49 UTC ( [id://218137]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
That won't work. You have to use the compiler that perl was compiled with ( i have gcc in my path, but my perl was compiled with cl, which is also in my path). All that stuff is stored in Config (use Config; aka `perl -V:.+'); A technique i've seen often is to get the compiler details out of %Config, and attempt to compile test.c, which is simply int main(){return 0}; Then attempt to run it. If you made it past those two, the user has a compiler, so the makefile gets written. And of course, there is an override commandline option, which skips the check, and assumes there is a compiler installed. The best technique by far , in my opinion, is not to worry or perform any checks. The users will figure out if s?he needs a compiler when they run make, you just make sure all your ducks are in order ;)(all the user has to do if they got a compiler is fill in a few path variables, and let it rip) For examples of this see the makefiles for the following distributions (among others):
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