Hi there,

as Module::Build will vanish out of the perl core in some versions, I'd like to know how I can do Module::Buildīs adding of new file types.

Say I have .dat files that are located in /dat in my modules path.

With Module::Build I can add a file type by adding my files within the definition ( dat_files => {'some/dir/Bar.dat' => 'lib/Foo/Bar.dat'},), then make that known to the builder:

$build->add_build_element('dat');

Is there anything similar in ExtUtils::MakeMaker?

I searched for that feature but is was not really obvious to me ...

In reply to Module::Build's adding new filetypes in ExtUtils::MakeMaker by vicdan

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