I recently got co-maintainership of a module which depends on PHP version 5. More specifically, it requires

• PHP header files (php.h, zend.h, etc) to be present.
• PHP library (libphp5.so on Linux, libphp5.dll on Windows, etc) to be present and was configured with the --enable-embed option.

The former is easy using File::Find as shown here. However, I do not know how to reliably do the latter.

ExtUtils::MakeMaker goes to great lengths to check that libraries are installed, and emits this message upon failure:

Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lphp5
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I'd like to catch that warning. Can I make an assessment based on the return value from ExtUtils::MakeMaker?

My goal is to simply abort (i.e. die) the 'perl Makefile.PL' if not all of the above requirements are met. Is there a reliable, platform-independent way of doing that in perl?

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