XS, MakeMaker, and all those other dreaded words

[BrentDax]

I'm working on my first XS module (it's a wrapper around Parrot's interpreter structure) and I've run into a problem. The Makefile MakeMaker makes isn't compiling my XS code in. Any idea why this is the case?

Thanks.

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--Brent Dax
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[tye]

If you had not yet created the *.xs file at the time you ran "perl Makefile.PL", then the generated Makefile would not know that it needed to do anything with the *.xs file.

Try rerunning "perl Makefile.PL" now that you've created the *.xs in that same directory.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

[beppu]

Check out http://lbox.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/pm/Tie-Pointer/ to see an unfinished module of mine that uses XS. You can compare and contrast your Makefile.PL w/ mine to see where you've gone wrong.

[mpeppler]

Did you start with h2xs to create the XS .pm and Makefile.PL stubs?

Michael

[BrentDax]

My initial command was h2xs -n Parrot::Interp. It generated the .xs file for me. However, when I ran the command again with a different module name, the generated Makefile.PL looked the same.

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--Brent Dax
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[mpeppler]

What does your Makefile.PL look like?

Like the other poster here I just tried it with h2xs -n MP::Test which created the necessary stubs. Running perl Makefile.PL;make; did invoke the compiler on Test.xs for me...

Michael

[rjray]

Is that all there was to the command, no other flags? I ran that exact command just now, and the resultant Makefile.PL doesn't appear to reference the XS file, but when I ran "perl Makefile.PL", the resulting Makefile did in fact have all the rules and references to compile and line Interp.xs.

--rjray