question about Makefile.PL

john.deighan has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I want to create a Perl module via Module::Starter, e.g. MyModule.pm, but MyModule.pm will be generated via the command eyapp - part of Parse::EYapp. In my Makefile.PL, I don't know how to specify that MyModule.pm needs to be generated from MyModule.eyp using the command line 'eyapp -s MyModule.eyp'. I'm somewhat familiar with makefiles in general and could probably add that dependency in a makefile, but I don't know how to do the same thing in Makefile.PL

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Re: question about Makefile.PL by Anonymous Monk on Aug 02, 2012 at 23:04 UTC
I don't know how to specify that MyModule.pm needs to be generated from MyModule.eyp using the command line I think you shouldn't need to specify that, nobody but the author of a distribution needs to run or have installed eyapp But anyway, you could use search.cpan.org/perldoc/ExtUtils::MakeMaker#PL_FILES `WriteMakefile( PL_FILES => { 'bin/doEyaAp.PL' => 'lib/MyModule.pm' 'bin/doEyaAp.PL' => 'lib/MyModule.pm' },` [download] Or MY::postamble, example in http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/CASIANO/Parse-Eyapp-1.182/Makefile.PL but note 1) its not portable `PERL5LIB=lib; perl ...` use `$(PERL) -Ilib ...` instead and 2) its an author specific target, make publicdist I'm sure dzil also offers some support for this, but I don't need Maximum Overkil	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: question about Makefile.PL
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 02, 2012 at 23:04 UTC

I don't know how to specify that MyModule.pm needs to be generated from MyModule.eyp using the command line

I think you shouldn't need to specify that, nobody but the author of a distribution needs to run or have installed eyapp

But anyway, you could use search.cpan.org/perldoc/ExtUtils::MakeMaker#PL_FILES

WriteMakefile( 
PL_FILES => {
  'bin/doEyaAp.PL' => 'lib/MyModule.pm'
  'bin/doEyaAp.PL' => 'lib/MyModule.pm'
},
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Or MY::postamble, example in http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/CASIANO/Parse-Eyapp-1.182/Makefile.PL but note 1) its not portable PERL5LIB=lib; perl ... use $(PERL) -Ilib ... instead and 2) its an author specific target, make publicdist

I'm sure dzil also offers some support for this, but I don't need Maximum Overkil

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