All,

I have recently loaded a package to CPAN Spreadsheet::XLSX::Reader::LibXML. The package is built on XML::LibXML which requires the libxml2 library in order to build successfully. Strangely this seems to come packaged with the OS for Windows but not for Unix or Linux OS's. I'm wondering if there is a good way to require libxml2 and it's dev package to load on non-windows systems through Makefile.PL magic with a Dist::Zilla plugin, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, or Module::Build in order to auto build this package from CPAN(M|P). I first noticed this issue when I wasn't getting many test reports from Linux / Unix systems in the CPAN Testers page.

I did get access to a Linux system and installed Alien::LibXML through CPANP and then tried to install XML::LibXML again and failed. I then installed libxml2 and libxml2-dev with the linux package installer and went back and installed XML::LibXML with no problems. (I also installed my own package with only minor problems hence the roll to v0.10.6)

I am not a strong ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Build user so I have relied heavily on Dist::Zilla++ and friends to get my modules out in the past. I will knuckle down and read what I need to but I'm not quite sure where to start. If it were as simple as requiring Alien::LibXML I might have tried to muddle through but I think I'm out of my depth here. Pointers on where to start would be greatly appreciated!

In reply to loading libxml2 as a prerequisite by jandrew

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