Hey there everyone. I have a perl module up on CPAN right now, that is an XS module written in C++. It works great for me and anyone of the Unixy persuasion (save cygwin for some reason). My problem is, I don't know how to tell ExtUtils::MakeMaker to simply use "any c++ compiler". Right now it's hardcoded to use g++, but I know that kills win32 users of the module. (There's also a CPAN tester failure saying as much).

The module is here, IP::Unique. The Makefile.PL script is: 
use 5.005;
use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
# See lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm for details of how to influence
# the contents of the Makefile that is written.

my $mod = my $pm = "IP::Unique";
$pm =~ s/::/\//g;
$pm = "lib/$pm.pm";
                                                                      
+          
unless(-e "CHANGES")
{
        open CHANGES,">>CHANGES";
        print CHANGES "Temp CHANGES file\n";
        close CHANGES;
}

my $CC = "g++";

WriteMakefile(
    NAME              => $mod,
    VERSION_FROM      => $pm, # finds $VERSION
    PREREQ_PM         => {}, # e.g., Module::Name => 1.1
    ($] >= 5.005 ?     ## Add these new keywords supported since 5.005
        (ABSTRACT_FROM  => $pm, # retrieve abstract from module
        AUTHOR         => 'Jay Bonci <jaybonci@cpan.org>') : ()),
    CC              => $CC,
    CCFLAGS          => "-Wall",
    LD              => '$(CC)',
    LIBS              => [''], # e.g., '-lm'
    DEFINE            => '', # e.g., '-DHAVE_SOMETHING'
    INC               => '-I.',
    XSOPT          => '-C++',
    OBJECT            => '$(O_FILES)', # link all the C files too

    'dist'          =>
    {
        #Auto-generate the CHANGES file
        PREOP => "podselect $pm -section CHANGES | pod2text -w 1000 -i
+ 5 | perl -pe \"s/^\s+(Version.*)/\$1/g;\" > CHANGES",
    },
);

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Basically, I wish XSOPTS was smarter, or 'CC' was a smarter variable. Is there an Win32 or general $ENV thing I can pull for this, or is there a good c++ xs module that would serve as an example. Thanks.


    --jaybonci

In reply to Makefile.pl for a C++ XS module... How to make windows happy? by JayBonci

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