ExtUtils::Miniperl(3)            Perl Programmers Reference Guide           ExtUtils::Miniperl(3)



NAME
       ExtUtils::Miniperl, writemain - write the C code for perlmain.c

SYNOPSIS
       "use ExtUtils::Miniperl;"

       "writemain(@directories);"

DESCRIPTION
       This whole module is written when perl itself is built from a script called minimod.PL. In
       case you want to patch it, please patch minimod.PL in the perl distribution instead.

       writemain() takes an argument list of directories containing archive libraries that relate
       to perl modules and should be linked into a new perl binary. It writes to STDOUT a corre-
       sponding perlmain.c file that is a plain C file containing all the bootstrap code to make
       the modules associated with the libraries available from within perl.

       The typical usage is from within a Makefile generated by ExtUtils::MakeMaker. So under
       normal circumstances you won't have to deal with this module directly.

SEE ALSO
       ExtUtils::MakeMaker



perl v5.8.8                                 2001-09-21                      ExtUtils::Miniperl(3)