how to detect 3rd party C libraries?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Say I'm writing a module that requires the presence of libfoo. What is a portable way to make sure that version X.Y.Z or greater of the library, including header files exist, are present on the system? (By "portable", I mean at least across major linux distros, and perhaps to *BSD and macs.)

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Re: how to detect 3rd party C libraries? by Anonymous Monk on Sep 20, 2011 at 02:12 UTC
?? ExtUtils::CChecker - configure-time utilities for using C headers, libraries, or OS features ?? ExtUtils::Autoconf - Perl interface to GNU autoconf	[reply]
Re: how to detect 3rd party C libraries? by DrHyde (Prior) on Sep 20, 2011 at 10:25 UTC
Devel::CheckLib.	[reply]

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