Alien::Libxml2(3)

NAME
Alien::Libxml2 - Install the C libxml2 library on your system

VERSION
version 0.11

SYNOPSIS
In your Build.PL:

 use Module::Build;
 use Alien::Libxml2;
 my $builder = Module::Build->new(
   ...
   configure_requires => {
     'Alien::Libxml2' => '0',
     ...
   },
   extra_compiler_flags => Alien::Libxml2->cflags,
   extra_linker_flags   => Alien::Libxml2->libs,
   ...
 );

 $build->create_build_script;

In your Makefile.PL:

 use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
 use Config;
 use Alien::Libxml2;

 WriteMakefile(
   ...
   CONFIGURE_REQUIRES => {
     'Alien::Libxml2' => '0',
   },
   CCFLAGS => Alien::Libxml2->cflags . " $Config{ccflags}",
   LIBS    => [ Alien::Libxml2->libs ],
   ...
 );

In your FFI::Platypus script or module:

 use FFI::Platypus;
 use Alien::Libxml2;

 my $ffi = FFI::Platypus->new(
   lib => [ Alien::Libxml2->dynamic_libs ],
 );

DESCRIPTION
This module provides libxml2 for other modules to use. There was an already existing Alien::LibXML, but it uses the older Alien::Build::ModuleBuild and has not been actively maintained for a while.

CAVEATS
"libxml2" has some optional prereqs, including "zlib" and "iconv". For a "share" install you will want to make sure that these are installed prior to installing Alien::Libxml2 if you want to make use of features relying on them.

For a system install, you want to make sure the development packages for "libxml2", "zlib" and "iconv" are installed if "libxml2" has been configured to use them, otherwise XML::LibXML will not install as expected. If the tests for this module fail with a missing "iconv.h" or "zlib.h", then this is likely the reason.

SEE ALSO

Alien::LibXML
    Unmaintained Alien for the same library.

AUTHOR
Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

Contributors:

Shlomi Fish (shlomif)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Graham Ollis.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.