1 Revision history for Perl extension ExtUtils::CBuilder.
3 0.280209 - 2012-10-20 (Perl v5.17.5)
7 - Allow options to be passed to prelink in Windows (perl #115100)
10 0.280208 - 2012-06-20 (Perl v5.17.1)
14 - Corrected location in which manifest file is looked for on
15 Windows (RT#35943, perl #111798) [snaury@gmail.com]
17 0.280207 (Not released)
21 - Corrected test for existence of manifest file on Windows
22 (perl #111782) [Steve Hay]
24 0.280206 - 2012-03-20 (Perl v5.15.9)
28 - Added a SUPPORT section to indicate that upstream is Perl 5 core
30 0.280205 - 2011-12-20 (Perl v5.15.6)
34 - Fixed bug picking up ccflags from Config
36 0.280204 - 2011-06-20 (Perl v5.15.0)
40 - Quotation style cleanup
42 0.280203 - 2011-05-14 (Perl v5.14.0)
46 - Appends CFLAGS and LDFLAGS environments instead of overriding
48 - Reset ccflags on compilation for VMS.
52 - Refactored OS name mapping to use Perl::OSType
54 0.280202 - Sun Jan 23 10:47:51 EST 2011
56 - Different file names used for test files; allows EU::CB tests
57 to be run in parallel. [Florian Ragwitz]
59 0.280201 - Fri Jan 21 15:16:36 EST 2011
63 - t/04-base.t no longer attempt to compile or link as this provokes
64 failures on main platforms
66 - Various typo fixes in Pod or comments
68 0.2802 - Sun Dec 12 07:22:43 EST 2010
72 - Incorporated another t/04-base.t fix from bleadperl
75 0.2801 - Wed Dec 8 21:36:56 EST 2010
79 - Fixed spurious t/04-base.t failure when run from Perl core
82 0.2800 - Mon Dec 6 16:05:46 EST 2010
84 - No changes from 0.27_07
86 0.27_07 - Wed Sep 29 21:48:55 EDT 2010
90 - Fixed t/02-link.t on perl < 5.8
92 0.27_06 - Mon Sep 27 15:29:54 EDT 2010
96 - Preserves exit status on VMS [Craig Berry]
98 - Fix Win32 split_like_shell escaping [Christian Walde]
100 0.27_05 - Wed Jul 28 15:29:59 EDT 2010
104 - Tests no longer fail if user has set the CC environment variable
106 0.27_04 - Mon Jul 26 22:41:43 EDT 2010
109 - handle c compiler and c++ compiler separately
110 (adds requirement for IPC::Cmd) [Jens Rehsack]
113 - rely on File::Temp::tempfile and File::Spec::tmpdir to
114 get unique file name for checking for compiler
117 - Code base modernization and substantial code coverage improvments
120 0.2703 - Tue Mar 16 17:10:55 EDT 2010
123 - fixed tests for Windows and MSVC [Jan Dubois]
125 0.2702 - Mon Feb 22 15:10:52 EST 2010
128 - compile() changes in 0.2701 did not work on Windows. Now fixed.
130 0.2701 - Tue Feb 16 09:12:45 EST 2010
133 - compile() now accepts both string & array for 'include_dirs'
134 argument, as documented.(RT#54606) [Alberto Simões]
136 0.27 - Thu Oct 29 21:29:56 EDT 2009
139 - Removed Build.PL to avoid creating a circular dependency
140 - Added version numbers to Windows compiler driver modules
142 0.26_05 - Sun Oct 25 17:29:02 EDT 2009
145 - Fixed t/02link.t failures on cygwin with Perl 5.8 [David Golden]
148 - Made have_compiler (and have_cplusplus) quiet without echoing
149 the test command to STDOUT [David Golden]
151 0.26_04 - Mon Oct 19 21:57:46 EDT 2009
154 - Added 'have_cplusplus()' method to check for C++ support
155 - Added patches for building Perl with mingw64 [Sisyphus]
156 - Allow CC environment variable to override $Config{cc}
159 - Fixed link executable command for Win32 MSVC (RT#40819) [Cosimo
161 - Removed MSVC version check when embedding a manifest file
162 (RT #43002) [Steve Hay]
165 - Split Windows compiler driver packages into individual *.pm files
167 0.260301 - Sat Aug 29 11:04:41 EDT 2009
170 - Fixed linking error on Win32 with gcc compiler (RT#49000)
173 0.2603 - Sat Jul 18 06:56:06 EDT 2009
176 - Makefile.PL had wrong INSTALLDIRS setting for older Perls
177 (RT#47985) [David Golden]
179 0.2602 - Sat Jul 4 10:57:12 EDT 2009
182 - Fixed 00-have-compiler.t if $^X is a relative path [David Wheeler]
184 0.2601 - Wed Jul 1 09:37:39 EDT 2009
187 - On VMS, cleans up extra files generated during testing
188 [John E. Malmberg, Craig Berry]
190 0.26 - Mon Jun 29 20:11:52 EDT 2009
192 - No changes from 0.25_01
194 0.25_01 - Sat Jun 27 23:13:20 EDT 2009
196 - Changed test library to Test::More
198 - Added tests for have_compiler
200 - Skips tests that need a compiler if have_compiler is false
202 - have_compiler will try to compile in the current directory
203 if compiling in tmpdir fails for whatever reason
205 0.25 - Fri Jun 26 16:18:13 EDT 2009
207 - Slight diagnostic improvements in link.t
209 0.24_01 - Sun Mar 8 14:50:10 2009
211 - On Windows, don't generate "mt" command when CRT is statically
214 - On Cygwin, examine $Config{useshrplib} to see whether we're
215 supposed to be linking with a shared perl library or not. [Reini
218 - In link_executable() on Cygwin, trust $Config{ld} rather than using
219 $Config{cc} for linking. [Reini Urban]
221 - Add 'haiku' as a Unix-like platform. [Ingo Weinhold]
223 0.24 - Fri Aug 15 22:01:48 2008
225 - Added 'gnu' and 'gnukfreebsd' as Unix variants. [Niko Tyni]
227 - Brought in some VMS fixes from bleadperl: "Correct and complete
228 CBuilder's handling of external libraries when linking on VMS."
231 0.23 - Sat Apr 19 22:28:03 2008
233 - Fixed some problems (some old, some new) with Strawberry Perl on
234 Windows. [Alberto Simo~es]
236 - Will now install in the core perl lib directory when the user's
237 perl is new enough to have us in core. [Yi Ma Mao]
239 0.22 - Fri Feb 8 21:52:21 2008
241 - Replaced the split_like_shell() method on Windows with a
242 near-no-op, which is probably more correct and has the benefit of
243 not messing up UNC paths. [John R. LoVerso, see
244 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26545]
246 - Fixed extra_compiler_flags on Windows, they were being
247 ignored. [Robert May]
249 0.21 - Tue Oct 30 06:46:01 2007
251 - Clean up perl_src path using Cwd::realpath(). Only affects usage
252 as part of the perl core.
254 - Protect $., $@, $!, $^E, and $? from any clobbering that might
255 occur in our DESTROY method. [Zefram]
257 - From bleadperl, a patch to clean up debug symbol files (.pdb for
258 VC++, .tds for BCC) when running have_compiler(). [Steve Hay &
261 0.19 - Sun May 13 14:29:18 2007
263 - When building as part of the perl core (so this is irrelevant for
264 people downloading from CPAN) we now try a little harder to find
265 the perl sources. [Jos Boumans]
267 - Fixed a part of the manifest thingy that got broken on 64-bit
268 Windows platforms in version 0.18. [Steve Hay, Jan Dubois]
270 0.18 - Mon Mar 26 21:29:09 2007
272 - Various OS/2 fixes:
273 + Put .LIB file near .DEF file
274 + Got library-file building working better
275 + Handled libperl_overrides better
278 - On Windows: embed manifest files in DLLs built with Module-Build
279 when using VC8. [Steve Hay]
281 - Added a workaround for a config error on dec_osf: the linker is
282 $Config{cc}, not $Config{ld}. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
284 - Borland's compiler "response files" will not pass through macro
285 definitions that contain quotes. The quotes get stripped and there
286 seems to be no way to escape them. So we leave macros on the
287 command line. [Randy W. Sims]
289 0.18 Sat Mar 25 13:35:47 CST 2006
291 - Yet more fixes for arg_defines() on VMS. [Craig A. Berry and John
294 0.17 Wed Mar 15 22:46:15 CST 2006
296 - When we're being run from an uninstalled perl distribution
297 (e.g. one that's in the process of being built and tested), we
298 search for perl first in the current working directory. [Randy
301 - More fixing of the arg_defines() method on VMS. [Craig A. Berry and
304 0.16 Mon Mar 13 17:08:21 CST 2006
306 - Fix quoting of command line arguments on Windows. [Yitzchak
309 - Provided a custom arg_defines() on VMS that does essentially the
310 same thing for /define that version 0.14 did for /include. [Craig
313 - Documented the existing 'quiet' parameter, which silences the
314 printing of system() commands. [Suggested by Yitzchak
317 0.15 Mon Oct 3 17:10:32 CDT 2005
319 - Several OS/2 fixes have been made, including: 1) adding the
320 necessary version string to DLLs, 2) passing the executable's name
321 to 'ldopts' without the .exe extension, 3) avoiding calling 'env'
322 via the 'shrpenv' thingy, since it triggers a fork() bug. [Ilya
325 - Integrate a couple cleanup-related changes from bleadperl that
326 somehow never got into this copy. [Steve Hay]
328 - Added a new 'defines' parameter to compile(), which gives a
329 platform-independant way to specify various -Dfoo=bar (or the
330 equivalent) compiler defines. [Randy W. Sims]
332 0.14 Mon Sep 19 13:40:37 CDT 2005
334 - Several fixes have been made for VMS, including: 1) there can only
335 be one /include qualifier, so merge multiple /includes into one; 2)
336 make sure the executable is named the same way that dynaloader will
337 look for it; 3) make sure the option files for the exported symbols
338 and the PERLSHR image are passed properly to the linker. [John
341 0.13 Wed Aug 24 20:05:59 CDT 2005
343 - Several temporary files weren't being cleaned up during testing,
344 because the 'cleanup' mechanism was never properly implemented.
345 This is now fixed. [Steve Hay]
347 0.12 Mon May 30 16:40:10 CDT 2005
349 - In order to integrate into the perl core, patches were contributed
350 that a) put a $VERSION variable in each .pm file, b) add a 'quiet'
351 parameter to new() to shut up some of the command-echoing, c)
352 checks for the perl source headers in the CORE/ directory in the
353 perl source tree, not in the post-installation location, and d)
354 adjusts the CWD when running the regression tests under the perl
355 core. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
357 - Various parts of the code were looking for the CORE/ directory in
358 $Config{archlib}, $Config{installarchlib}, and $Config{archlibexp}.
359 Only the latter is correct, so we use that everywhere now.
362 - For Unix-ish platforms, link_executable() will now prefer
363 $Config{cc} to $Config{ld}, because that typically works
364 better. [Jarkko Hietaniemi and H.Merijn Brand]
366 - Prelinking (invoking ExtUtils::Mksymlists to create options-files)
367 is now only done when we're building dynamic libraries. [Yitzchak
370 0.11 Tue Apr 5 20:58:41 CDT 2005
372 - Added a licensing statement to CBuilder.pm. [Spotted by Chip
375 0.10 Mon Mar 14 20:18:19 CST 2005
377 - Split out a few simple routines that format how compile switches
378 are formatted, so that we can override them for platforms like VMS
379 where they're very different.
381 - Fix compile() and link() on VMS. [Help from Michael Schwern and
384 0.09 Tue Feb 8 17:57:41 CST 2005
386 - Fixed a broken link_executable() method on cygwin - it now uses
387 'gcc' instead of $Config{ld} for the linking, because the latter is
388 actually a shell script which calls a perl script which calls gcc
389 in a way that only works for creating shared libraries, not
392 0.08 Tue Jan 18 21:54:11 CST 2005
394 - Fixed a testing error in which I had the prototype wrong for the
395 main() function. [Jose Pedro Oliveira]
397 0.07 Wed Jan 12 21:50:34 CST 2005
399 - Added the link_executable() method, which provides the ability to
400 create standalone executables. This is NOT yet implemented on
401 Windows, and therefore the tests for it are skipped on Win32.
402 [Alberto Manuel Brandao Simoes]
404 - Integrated the latest split_like_shell() for Windows from
405 Module::Build (really need to find a better home for this code...),
406 which now does a much better job of handling quotes and backslashes
407 and so on. [Randy Sims]
409 - Fixed a couple of Windows problems related to the output-file name
410 in link(), and some clobbering of the 'include_dirs' parameter to
411 compile(). [Randy Sims]
413 0.06 Mon Dec 27 22:51:36 CST 2004
415 - Fixed a bug on Unix environments in which our work-around for
416 shell-commands like "FOO=BAR cc" (which is supposed to be turned
417 into "env FOO=BAR cc" to actually work) wasn't being called.
419 0.05 Wed Oct 13 23:09:09 CDT 2004
421 - Fixed a bug in split_like_shell() in which leading whitespace was
422 creating an empty word, manifesting as something like "gcc - no
423 such file or directory" during tests. [Spotted by Warren L. Dodge]
425 - Incorporate another split_like_shell() fix from Module::Build.
427 0.04 Sun Oct 10 00:31:08 CDT 2004
429 - Changed the split_like_shell() method to use the shellwords()
430 function from Text::ParseWords (a core module since 5.0), which
431 does a much better job than the split() we were using.
434 0.03 Fri May 14 23:12:23 CDT 2004
436 - Fixed minor problems with the Build.PL file, the module names
439 - The VMS module declared itself with the wrong package name.
442 0.02 Fri Feb 20 10:17:40 CST 2004
444 - Fixed a bug in .../Platform/Windows.pm, in which compile() was
445 ignoring an 'include_dirs' argument. [Randy Sims]
447 - Fixed a bug in .../Platform/Windows.pm, in which output files were
448 being created in the root directory \ when they should be created
449 in the current directory. [Randy Sims]
452 0.01 Mon Jan 12 08:12:35 CST 2004
454 - Original release, taken from Module::Build's C-building code, with
455 patching help from Randy Sims.