1 Revision history for Perl extension ExtUtils::CBuilder.
3 - When building as part of the perl core (so this is irrelevant for
4 people downloading from CPAN) we now try a little harder to find
5 the perl sources. [Jos Boumans]
7 - Fixed a part of the manifest thingy that got broken on 64-bit
8 Windows platforms in version 0.18. [Steve Hay, Jan Dubois]
10 0.18 - Mon Mar 26 21:29:09 2007
13 + Put .LIB file near .DEF file
14 + Got library-file building working better
15 + Handled libperl_overrides better
18 - On Windows: embed manifest files in DLLs built with Module-Build
19 when using VC8. [Steve Hay]
21 - Added a workaround for a config error on dec_osf: the linker is
22 $Config{cc}, not $Config{ld}. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
24 - Borland's compiler "response files" will not pass through macro
25 definitions that contain quotes. The quotes get stripped and there
26 seems to be no way to escape them. So we leave macros on the
27 command line. [Randy W. Sims]
29 0.18 Sat Mar 25 13:35:47 CST 2006
31 - Yet more fixes for arg_defines() on VMS. [Craig A. Berry and John
34 0.17 Wed Mar 15 22:46:15 CST 2006
36 - When we're being run from an uninstalled perl distribution
37 (e.g. one that's in the process of being built and tested), we
38 search for perl first in the current working directory. [Randy
41 - More fixing of the arg_defines() method on VMS. [Craig A. Berry and
44 0.16 Mon Mar 13 17:08:21 CST 2006
46 - Fix quoting of command line arguments on Windows. [Yitzchak
49 - Provided a custom arg_defines() on VMS that does essentially the
50 same thing for /define that version 0.14 did for /include. [Craig
53 - Documented the existing 'quiet' parameter, which silences the
54 printing of system() commands. [Suggested by Yitzchak
57 0.15 Mon Oct 3 17:10:32 CDT 2005
59 - Several OS/2 fixes have been made, including: 1) adding the
60 necessary version string to DLLs, 2) passing the executable's name
61 to 'ldopts' without the .exe extension, 3) avoiding calling 'env'
62 via the 'shrpenv' thingy, since it triggers a fork() bug. [Ilya
65 - Integrate a couple cleanup-related changes from bleadperl that
66 somehow never got into this copy. [Steve Hay]
68 - Added a new 'defines' parameter to compile(), which gives a
69 platform-independant way to specify various -Dfoo=bar (or the
70 equivalent) compiler defines. [Randy W. Sims]
72 0.14 Mon Sep 19 13:40:37 CDT 2005
74 - Several fixes have been made for VMS, including: 1) there can only
75 be one /include qualifier, so merge multiple /includes into one; 2)
76 make sure the executable is named the same way that dynaloader will
77 look for it; 3) make sure the option files for the exported symbols
78 and the PERLSHR image are passed properly to the linker. [John
81 0.13 Wed Aug 24 20:05:59 CDT 2005
83 - Several temporary files weren't being cleaned up during testing,
84 because the 'cleanup' mechanism was never properly implemented.
85 This is now fixed. [Steve Hay]
87 0.12 Mon May 30 16:40:10 CDT 2005
89 - In order to integrate into the perl core, patches were contributed
90 that a) put a $VERSION variable in each .pm file, b) add a 'quiet'
91 parameter to new() to shut up some of the command-echoing, c)
92 checks for the perl source headers in the CORE/ directory in the
93 perl source tree, not in the post-installation location, and d)
94 adjusts the CWD when running the regression tests under the perl
95 core. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
97 - Various parts of the code were looking for the CORE/ directory in
98 $Config{archlib}, $Config{installarchlib}, and $Config{archlibexp}.
99 Only the latter is correct, so we use that everywhere now.
102 - For Unix-ish platforms, link_executable() will now prefer
103 $Config{cc} to $Config{ld}, because that typically works
104 better. [Jarkko Hietaniemi and H.Merijn Brand]
106 - Prelinking (invoking ExtUtils::Mksymlists to create options-files)
107 is now only done when we're building dynamic libraries. [Yitzchak
110 0.11 Tue Apr 5 20:58:41 CDT 2005
112 - Added a licensing statement to CBuilder.pm. [Spotted by Chip
115 0.10 Mon Mar 14 20:18:19 CST 2005
117 - Split out a few simple routines that format how compile switches
118 are formatted, so that we can override them for platforms like VMS
119 where they're very different.
121 - Fix compile() and link() on VMS. [Help from Michael Schwern and
124 0.09 Tue Feb 8 17:57:41 CST 2005
126 - Fixed a broken link_executable() method on cygwin - it now uses
127 'gcc' instead of $Config{ld} for the linking, because the latter is
128 actually a shell script which calls a perl script which calls gcc
129 in a way that only works for creating shared libraries, not
132 0.08 Tue Jan 18 21:54:11 CST 2005
134 - Fixed a testing error in which I had the prototype wrong for the
135 main() function. [Jose Pedro Oliveira]
137 0.07 Wed Jan 12 21:50:34 CST 2005
139 - Added the link_executable() method, which provides the ability to
140 create standalone executables. This is NOT yet implemented on
141 Windows, and therefore the tests for it are skipped on Win32.
142 [Alberto Manuel Brandao Simoes]
144 - Integrated the latest split_like_shell() for Windows from
145 Module::Build (really need to find a better home for this code...),
146 which now does a much better job of handling quotes and backslashes
147 and so on. [Randy Sims]
149 - Fixed a couple of Windows problems related to the output-file name
150 in link(), and some clobbering of the 'include_dirs' parameter to
151 compile(). [Randy Sims]
153 0.06 Mon Dec 27 22:51:36 CST 2004
155 - Fixed a bug on Unix environments in which our work-around for
156 shell-commands like "FOO=BAR cc" (which is supposed to be turned
157 into "env FOO=BAR cc" to actually work) wasn't being called.
159 0.05 Wed Oct 13 23:09:09 CDT 2004
161 - Fixed a bug in split_like_shell() in which leading whitespace was
162 creating an empty word, manifesting as something like "gcc - no
163 such file or directory" during tests. [Spotted by Warren L. Dodge]
165 - Incorporate another split_like_shell() fix from Module::Build.
167 0.04 Sun Oct 10 00:31:08 CDT 2004
169 - Changed the split_like_shell() method to use the shellwords()
170 function from Text::ParseWords (a core module since 5.0), which
171 does a much better job than the split() we were using.
174 0.03 Fri May 14 23:12:23 CDT 2004
176 - Fixed minor problems with the Build.PL file, the module names
179 - The VMS module declared itself with the wrong package name.
182 0.02 Fri Feb 20 10:17:40 CST 2004
184 - Fixed a bug in .../Platform/Windows.pm, in which compile() was
185 ignoring an 'include_dirs' argument. [Randy Sims]
187 - Fixed a bug in .../Platform/Windows.pm, in which output files were
188 being created in the root directory \ when they should be created
189 in the current directory. [Randy Sims]
192 0.01 Mon Jan 12 08:12:35 CST 2004
194 - Original release, taken from Module::Build's C-building code, with
195 patching help from Randy Sims.