I know that this is more of a C question, but since I am trying to make it work with perl I think it qualifies. I am trying to compile a module to interact with mysql's myisam library. I am, however, having difficulties compiling it. I have managed to fake a test program to compile and the output from the Mysql make file is a follows 
make mi_test1
source='mi_test1.c' object='mi_test1.o' libtool=no \
depfile='.deps/mi_test1.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/mi_test1.TPo' \
depmode=gcc /bin/ksh ../depcomp \
gcc -DMAP_TO_USE_RAID -I. -I. -I.. -I./../include -I../include     -O3
+ -DDBUG_OFF   -DHAVE_CURSES_H -I/idcom/tmp/mysql-4.0.12/include -DHAV
+E_RWLOCK_T -c `test -f mi_test1.c || echo './'`mi_test1.c
/bin/ksh ../libtool --mode=link gcc  -O3 -DDBUG_OFF   -DHAVE_CURSES_H 
+-I/idcom/tmp/mysql-4.0.12/include -DHAVE_RWLOCK_T    -o mi_test1  mi_
+test1.o libmyisam.a ../mysys/libmysys.a  ../dbug/libdbug.a ../strings
+/libmystrings.a -lpthread -lthread -lcrypt -lgen -lsocket -lnsl -lm  
+-lpthread -lthread
gcc -O3 -DDBUG_OFF -DHAVE_CURSES_H -I/idcom/tmp/mysql-4.0.12/include -
+DHAVE_RWLOCK_T -o mi_test1 mi_test1.o  libmyisam.a ../mysys/libmysys.
+a ../dbug/libdbug.a ../strings/libmystrings.a -lpthread -lthread -lcr
+ypt -lgen -lsocket -lnsl -lm -lpthread -lthread

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The problem is... that doesn't look like it will play nicely with Makefile.PL, especially the libtool line which uses libtool distributed with the mysql source.

can anyone help me figure out how to get rework this into a more normal compile that I can work into Makefile.PL. I know C allright, but when it comes to linking libraries I am not very knowledgable.

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In reply to Getting a C library to compile into a Perl module... by suaveant

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