Task::AlienDev

Task bundle for Alien development

SYNOPSIS

$ cpanm Task::AlienDev

DESCRIPTION

This Task bundle is useful for those doing Alien development. Installing it will give you these modules:

• Alien::Build

  Framework for writing Aliens.

• Alien::MSYS

  Is used on Windows to make autoconf style packages work.

• App::af

  The af command line application for working with alienfiles.

• Dist::Zilla::MintingProfile::AlienBuild

  The Dist::Zilla minting profile for creating Alien::Build based Aliens.

• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::AlienBuild

  Some useful Dist::Zilla plugins useful for developing Alien::Build based Aliens.

The latest versions as of when this Task was released should be installed at minimum if they are not already installed.

In addition these modules, which are dynamic dependencies on some platforms, are installed:

• Env::ShellWords
• File::Listing
• HTTP::Tiny
• Mojo::DOM58
• Sort::Versions
• URI

Having these dynamic dependencies pre-installed makes it easier to test Aliens in both share and system modes.

Other prereqs may be added in the future if they are deemed useful for Alien development.

CAVEATS

This module does require Perl 5.22 or better currently because at least some of its prereqs require that version. Note that Aliens authored with these tools should work on Perls of at least 5.8.4 or better, so this is just a development requirement.

This Task indirectly requires both Alien::FFI and Alien::Libarchive3. If you do not want to build them from source or do not have internet access where the build is happening you will want to pre-install libffi and libarchive. On Debian based systems you can do that with sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libffi-dev libarchive-dev.

AUTHOR

Graham Ollis [email protected]

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2021 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.