Hey Dudes,

I have a couple of deeply nested (directory wise and namespace) XS files that I want to include in an already long developed perl module. h2xs is not my friend in this case as it tends to like creating new files...

(names have been changed for simplification)

The XS file (which has all of the c code in it) has a name of lib/MyModule/Drv/MyCode.xs and contain the lines 

 MODULE = MyModule::Drv::MyCode  PACKAGE = MyModule::Drv::MyCode
 PROTOTYPES: DISABLE

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and the rest of the normal code.

My corosponding lib/MyModule/Drv/MyCode.pm contains 

 package MyModule::Drv::MyCode;
 use strict;
 use Carp;
 use vars qw($VERSION @ISA @EXPORT);
 require DynaLoader;
 @ISA = qw(DynaLoader);
 $VERSION = '0.1';
 bootstrap MyModule::Drv::MyCode $VERSION;

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and the rest of the normal code.

My MANIFEST file in the root directory contains 

 lib/Device/ParallelPort/drv/linux.pm
 lib/Device/ParallelPort/drv/linux.xs

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amoung other lines Finally my Makefile.PL complete, looks like this: 
 use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;

 WriteMakefile(
              'NAME'    => 'MyModule',
              'VERSION_FROM' => 'lib/MyModule.pm',
              'LIBS'    => [''],
              'DEFINE'  => $dflags,
              'INC'     => '',
 );

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I have tried varying things like adding 
 'XS' => {
   'lib/MyModule/Drv/MyCode.xs' => 'lib/MyModule/Drv/MyCode.c',
 },

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The problem is that the resulting Makefile from "perl Makefile.PL" does not compile my .xs file. Sometimes (depending on the many tests I have tried) it compiles MyModule.xs - which does not exist.

I can only get it to work if the .xs file is in the root directory.

Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this.

Much Appreciated in advance :-)

Scott

In reply to XS compile in Makefile.PL by scottp

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