1 Revision history for Perl extension ExtUtils::CBuilder.
3 0.2703 - Tue Mar 16 17:10:55 EDT 2010
6 - fixed tests for Windows and MSVC [Jan Dubois]
8 0.2702 - Mon Feb 22 15:10:52 EST 2010
11 - compile() changes in 0.2701 did not work on Windows. Now fixed.
13 0.2701 - Tue Feb 16 09:12:45 EST 2010
16 - compile() now accepts both string & array for 'include_dirs'
17 argument, as documented.(RT#54606) [Alberto Simões]
19 0.27 - Thu Oct 29 21:29:56 EDT 2009
22 - Removed Build.PL to avoid creating a circular dependency
23 - Added version numbers to Windows compiler driver modules
25 0.26_05 - Sun Oct 25 17:29:02 EDT 2009
28 - Fixed t/02link.t failures on cygwin with Perl 5.8 [David Golden]
31 - Made have_compiler (and have_cplusplus) quiet without echoing
32 the test command to STDOUT [David Golden]
34 0.26_04 - Mon Oct 19 21:57:46 EDT 2009
37 - Added 'have_cplusplus()' method to check for C++ support
38 - Added patches for building Perl with mingw64 [Sisyphus]
39 - Allow CC environment variable to override $Config{cc}
42 - Fixed link executable command for Win32 MSVC (RT#40819) [Cosimo
44 - Removed MSVC version check when embedding a manifest file
45 (RT #43002) [Steve Hay]
48 - Split Windows compiler driver packages into individual *.pm files
50 0.260301 - Sat Aug 29 11:04:41 EDT 2009
53 - Fixed linking error on Win32 with gcc compiler (RT#49000)
56 0.2603 - Sat Jul 18 06:56:06 EDT 2009
59 - Makefile.PL had wrong INSTALLDIRS setting for older Perls
60 (RT#47985) [David Golden]
62 0.2602 - Sat Jul 4 10:57:12 EDT 2009
65 - Fixed 00-have-compiler.t if $^X is a relative path [David Wheeler]
67 0.2601 - Wed Jul 1 09:37:39 EDT 2009
70 - On VMS, cleans up extra files generated during testing
71 [John E. Malmberg, Craig Berry]
73 0.26 - Mon Jun 29 20:11:52 EDT 2009
75 - No changes from 0.25_01
77 0.25_01 - Sat Jun 27 23:13:20 EDT 2009
79 - Changed test library to Test::More
81 - Added tests for have_compiler
83 - Skips tests that need a compiler if have_compiler is false
85 - have_compiler will try to compile in the current directory
86 if compiling in tmpdir fails for whatever reason
88 0.25 - Fri Jun 26 16:18:13 EDT 2009
90 - Slight diagnostic improvements in link.t
92 0.24_01 - Sun Mar 8 14:50:10 2009
94 - On Windows, don't generate "mt" command when CRT is statically
97 - On Cygwin, examine $Config{useshrplib} to see whether we're
98 supposed to be linking with a shared perl library or not. [Reini
101 - In link_executable() on Cygwin, trust $Config{ld} rather than using
102 $Config{cc} for linking. [Reini Urban]
104 - Add 'haiku' as a Unix-like platform. [Ingo Weinhold]
106 0.24 - Fri Aug 15 22:01:48 2008
108 - Added 'gnu' and 'gnukfreebsd' as Unix variants. [Niko Tyni]
110 - Brought in some VMS fixes from bleadperl: "Correct and complete
111 CBuilder's handling of external libraries when linking on VMS."
114 0.23 - Sat Apr 19 22:28:03 2008
116 - Fixed some problems (some old, some new) with Strawberry Perl on
117 Windows. [Alberto Simo~es]
119 - Will now install in the core perl lib directory when the user's
120 perl is new enough to have us in core. [Yi Ma Mao]
122 0.22 - Fri Feb 8 21:52:21 2008
124 - Replaced the split_like_shell() method on Windows with a
125 near-no-op, which is probably more correct and has the benefit of
126 not messing up UNC paths. [John R. LoVerso, see
127 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26545]
129 - Fixed extra_compiler_flags on Windows, they were being
130 ignored. [Robert May]
132 0.21 - Tue Oct 30 06:46:01 2007
134 - Clean up perl_src path using Cwd::realpath(). Only affects usage
135 as part of the perl core.
137 - Protect $., $@, $!, $^E, and $? from any clobbering that might
138 occur in our DESTROY method. [Zefram]
140 - From bleadperl, a patch to clean up debug symbol files (.pdb for
141 VC++, .tds for BCC) when running have_compiler(). [Steve Hay &
144 0.19 - Sun May 13 14:29:18 2007
146 - When building as part of the perl core (so this is irrelevant for
147 people downloading from CPAN) we now try a little harder to find
148 the perl sources. [Jos Boumans]
150 - Fixed a part of the manifest thingy that got broken on 64-bit
151 Windows platforms in version 0.18. [Steve Hay, Jan Dubois]
153 0.18 - Mon Mar 26 21:29:09 2007
155 - Various OS/2 fixes:
156 + Put .LIB file near .DEF file
157 + Got library-file building working better
158 + Handled libperl_overrides better
161 - On Windows: embed manifest files in DLLs built with Module-Build
162 when using VC8. [Steve Hay]
164 - Added a workaround for a config error on dec_osf: the linker is
165 $Config{cc}, not $Config{ld}. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
167 - Borland's compiler "response files" will not pass through macro
168 definitions that contain quotes. The quotes get stripped and there
169 seems to be no way to escape them. So we leave macros on the
170 command line. [Randy W. Sims]
172 0.18 Sat Mar 25 13:35:47 CST 2006
174 - Yet more fixes for arg_defines() on VMS. [Craig A. Berry and John
177 0.17 Wed Mar 15 22:46:15 CST 2006
179 - When we're being run from an uninstalled perl distribution
180 (e.g. one that's in the process of being built and tested), we
181 search for perl first in the current working directory. [Randy
184 - More fixing of the arg_defines() method on VMS. [Craig A. Berry and
187 0.16 Mon Mar 13 17:08:21 CST 2006
189 - Fix quoting of command line arguments on Windows. [Yitzchak
192 - Provided a custom arg_defines() on VMS that does essentially the
193 same thing for /define that version 0.14 did for /include. [Craig
196 - Documented the existing 'quiet' parameter, which silences the
197 printing of system() commands. [Suggested by Yitzchak
200 0.15 Mon Oct 3 17:10:32 CDT 2005
202 - Several OS/2 fixes have been made, including: 1) adding the
203 necessary version string to DLLs, 2) passing the executable's name
204 to 'ldopts' without the .exe extension, 3) avoiding calling 'env'
205 via the 'shrpenv' thingy, since it triggers a fork() bug. [Ilya
208 - Integrate a couple cleanup-related changes from bleadperl that
209 somehow never got into this copy. [Steve Hay]
211 - Added a new 'defines' parameter to compile(), which gives a
212 platform-independant way to specify various -Dfoo=bar (or the
213 equivalent) compiler defines. [Randy W. Sims]
215 0.14 Mon Sep 19 13:40:37 CDT 2005
217 - Several fixes have been made for VMS, including: 1) there can only
218 be one /include qualifier, so merge multiple /includes into one; 2)
219 make sure the executable is named the same way that dynaloader will
220 look for it; 3) make sure the option files for the exported symbols
221 and the PERLSHR image are passed properly to the linker. [John
224 0.13 Wed Aug 24 20:05:59 CDT 2005
226 - Several temporary files weren't being cleaned up during testing,
227 because the 'cleanup' mechanism was never properly implemented.
228 This is now fixed. [Steve Hay]
230 0.12 Mon May 30 16:40:10 CDT 2005
232 - In order to integrate into the perl core, patches were contributed
233 that a) put a $VERSION variable in each .pm file, b) add a 'quiet'
234 parameter to new() to shut up some of the command-echoing, c)
235 checks for the perl source headers in the CORE/ directory in the
236 perl source tree, not in the post-installation location, and d)
237 adjusts the CWD when running the regression tests under the perl
238 core. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
240 - Various parts of the code were looking for the CORE/ directory in
241 $Config{archlib}, $Config{installarchlib}, and $Config{archlibexp}.
242 Only the latter is correct, so we use that everywhere now.
245 - For Unix-ish platforms, link_executable() will now prefer
246 $Config{cc} to $Config{ld}, because that typically works
247 better. [Jarkko Hietaniemi and H.Merijn Brand]
249 - Prelinking (invoking ExtUtils::Mksymlists to create options-files)
250 is now only done when we're building dynamic libraries. [Yitzchak
253 0.11 Tue Apr 5 20:58:41 CDT 2005
255 - Added a licensing statement to CBuilder.pm. [Spotted by Chip
258 0.10 Mon Mar 14 20:18:19 CST 2005
260 - Split out a few simple routines that format how compile switches
261 are formatted, so that we can override them for platforms like VMS
262 where they're very different.
264 - Fix compile() and link() on VMS. [Help from Michael Schwern and
267 0.09 Tue Feb 8 17:57:41 CST 2005
269 - Fixed a broken link_executable() method on cygwin - it now uses
270 'gcc' instead of $Config{ld} for the linking, because the latter is
271 actually a shell script which calls a perl script which calls gcc
272 in a way that only works for creating shared libraries, not
275 0.08 Tue Jan 18 21:54:11 CST 2005
277 - Fixed a testing error in which I had the prototype wrong for the
278 main() function. [Jose Pedro Oliveira]
280 0.07 Wed Jan 12 21:50:34 CST 2005
282 - Added the link_executable() method, which provides the ability to
283 create standalone executables. This is NOT yet implemented on
284 Windows, and therefore the tests for it are skipped on Win32.
285 [Alberto Manuel Brandao Simoes]
287 - Integrated the latest split_like_shell() for Windows from
288 Module::Build (really need to find a better home for this code...),
289 which now does a much better job of handling quotes and backslashes
290 and so on. [Randy Sims]
292 - Fixed a couple of Windows problems related to the output-file name
293 in link(), and some clobbering of the 'include_dirs' parameter to
294 compile(). [Randy Sims]
296 0.06 Mon Dec 27 22:51:36 CST 2004
298 - Fixed a bug on Unix environments in which our work-around for
299 shell-commands like "FOO=BAR cc" (which is supposed to be turned
300 into "env FOO=BAR cc" to actually work) wasn't being called.
302 0.05 Wed Oct 13 23:09:09 CDT 2004
304 - Fixed a bug in split_like_shell() in which leading whitespace was
305 creating an empty word, manifesting as something like "gcc - no
306 such file or directory" during tests. [Spotted by Warren L. Dodge]
308 - Incorporate another split_like_shell() fix from Module::Build.
310 0.04 Sun Oct 10 00:31:08 CDT 2004
312 - Changed the split_like_shell() method to use the shellwords()
313 function from Text::ParseWords (a core module since 5.0), which
314 does a much better job than the split() we were using.
317 0.03 Fri May 14 23:12:23 CDT 2004
319 - Fixed minor problems with the Build.PL file, the module names
322 - The VMS module declared itself with the wrong package name.
325 0.02 Fri Feb 20 10:17:40 CST 2004
327 - Fixed a bug in .../Platform/Windows.pm, in which compile() was
328 ignoring an 'include_dirs' argument. [Randy Sims]
330 - Fixed a bug in .../Platform/Windows.pm, in which output files were
331 being created in the root directory \ when they should be created
332 in the current directory. [Randy Sims]
335 0.01 Mon Jan 12 08:12:35 CST 2004
337 - Original release, taken from Module::Build's C-building code, with
338 patching help from Randy Sims.