NAME

Alien::Zlib

SYNOPSIS

    require Alien::Zlib;

    my $prefix  = Alien::Zlib->prefix;
    my $include = Alien::Zlib->include;
    my $lib     = Alien::Zlib->lib;

    my $ver     = Alien::Zlib->version;

DESCRIPTION

This module resolves the non-perl prerequisite zlib. This allows your program/module to depend on the zlib library and expect common installers, such as CPANPLUS and CPAN.pm to install them for you.

It does so by installing a private copy of the zlib libraries into it's module directory.

Go to http://www.zlib.org for more information about zlib.

METHODS

prefix();

Returns the prefix (ie, the directory) where the include and lib directores will live. On a standard unix system, this might be /usr/local/

For this module, it will be $INC{'Alien/Zlib'}.

lib();

Returns the full path to the lib directory for the zlib libraries. On standard unix systems, this might be /usr/local/lib

For this module, it will be $INC{'Alien/Zlib'}/lib

include()

Returns the full path to the include directory for the zlib libraries. On standard unix systems, this might be /usr/local/include

For this module, it will be $INC{'Alien/Zlib'}/include

version()

Returns the version of the zlib libraries installed by this version of Alien::Zlib

lib_files()

Returns a list of full paths to the files that can be found in the 'Alien::Zlib->lib' directory. This corresponds to all created libraries.

include_files()

Returns a list of full paths to the files that can be found in the 'Alien::Zlib->include' direcotry. This corresponds to all copied header files.

TODO

Probe for system installed version of zlib
Gather more hints file to ensure this module builds properly on all platforms that zlib builds on.

AUTHOR

This module by Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT

This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

POD ERRORS

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