1 Revision history for Perl extension ExtUtils::CBuilder.
3 0.27 - Thu Oct 29 21:29:56 EDT 2009
6 - Removed Build.PL to avoid creating a circular dependency
7 - Added version numbers to Windows compiler driver modules
9 0.26_05 - Sun Oct 25 17:29:02 EDT 2009
12 - Fixed t/02link.t failures on cygwin with Perl 5.8 [David Golden]
15 - Made have_compiler (and have_cplusplus) quiet without echoing
16 the test command to STDOUT [David Golden]
18 0.26_04 - Mon Oct 19 21:57:46 EDT 2009
21 - Added 'have_cplusplus()' method to check for C++ support
22 - Added patches for building Perl with mingw64 [Sisyphus]
23 - Allow CC environment variable to override $Config{cc}
26 - Fixed link executable command for Win32 MSVC (RT#40819) [Cosimo
28 - Removed MSVC version check when embedding a manifest file
29 (RT #43002) [Steve Hay]
32 - Split Windows compiler driver packages into individual *.pm files
34 0.260301 - Sat Aug 29 11:04:41 EDT 2009
37 - Fixed linking error on Win32 with gcc compiler (RT#49000)
40 0.2603 - Sat Jul 18 06:56:06 EDT 2009
43 - Makefile.PL had wrong INSTALLDIRS setting for older Perls
44 (RT#47985) [David Golden]
46 0.2602 - Sat Jul 4 10:57:12 EDT 2009
49 - Fixed 00-have-compiler.t if $^X is a relative path [David Wheeler]
51 0.2601 - Wed Jul 1 09:37:39 EDT 2009
54 - On VMS, cleans up extra files generated during testing
55 [John E. Malmberg, Craig Berry]
57 0.26 - Mon Jun 29 20:11:52 EDT 2009
59 - No changes from 0.25_01
61 0.25_01 - Sat Jun 27 23:13:20 EDT 2009
63 - Changed test library to Test::More
65 - Added tests for have_compiler
67 - Skips tests that need a compiler if have_compiler is false
69 - have_compiler will try to compile in the current directory
70 if compiling in tmpdir fails for whatever reason
72 0.25 - Fri Jun 26 16:18:13 EDT 2009
74 - Slight diagnostic improvements in link.t
76 0.24_01 - Sun Mar 8 14:50:10 2009
78 - On Windows, don't generate "mt" command when CRT is statically
81 - On Cygwin, examine $Config{useshrplib} to see whether we're
82 supposed to be linking with a shared perl library or not. [Reini
85 - In link_executable() on Cygwin, trust $Config{ld} rather than using
86 $Config{cc} for linking. [Reini Urban]
88 - Add 'haiku' as a Unix-like platform. [Ingo Weinhold]
90 0.24 - Fri Aug 15 22:01:48 2008
92 - Added 'gnu' and 'gnukfreebsd' as Unix variants. [Niko Tyni]
94 - Brought in some VMS fixes from bleadperl: "Correct and complete
95 CBuilder's handling of external libraries when linking on VMS."
98 0.23 - Sat Apr 19 22:28:03 2008
100 - Fixed some problems (some old, some new) with Strawberry Perl on
101 Windows. [Alberto Simo~es]
103 - Will now install in the core perl lib directory when the user's
104 perl is new enough to have us in core. [Yi Ma Mao]
106 0.22 - Fri Feb 8 21:52:21 2008
108 - Replaced the split_like_shell() method on Windows with a
109 near-no-op, which is probably more correct and has the benefit of
110 not messing up UNC paths. [John R. LoVerso, see
111 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26545]
113 - Fixed extra_compiler_flags on Windows, they were being
114 ignored. [Robert May]
116 0.21 - Tue Oct 30 06:46:01 2007
118 - Clean up perl_src path using Cwd::realpath(). Only affects usage
119 as part of the perl core.
121 - Protect $., $@, $!, $^E, and $? from any clobbering that might
122 occur in our DESTROY method. [Zefram]
124 - From bleadperl, a patch to clean up debug symbol files (.pdb for
125 VC++, .tds for BCC) when running have_compiler(). [Steve Hay &
128 0.19 - Sun May 13 14:29:18 2007
130 - When building as part of the perl core (so this is irrelevant for
131 people downloading from CPAN) we now try a little harder to find
132 the perl sources. [Jos Boumans]
134 - Fixed a part of the manifest thingy that got broken on 64-bit
135 Windows platforms in version 0.18. [Steve Hay, Jan Dubois]
137 0.18 - Mon Mar 26 21:29:09 2007
139 - Various OS/2 fixes:
140 + Put .LIB file near .DEF file
141 + Got library-file building working better
142 + Handled libperl_overrides better
145 - On Windows: embed manifest files in DLLs built with Module-Build
146 when using VC8. [Steve Hay]
148 - Added a workaround for a config error on dec_osf: the linker is
149 $Config{cc}, not $Config{ld}. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
151 - Borland's compiler "response files" will not pass through macro
152 definitions that contain quotes. The quotes get stripped and there
153 seems to be no way to escape them. So we leave macros on the
154 command line. [Randy W. Sims]
156 0.18 Sat Mar 25 13:35:47 CST 2006
158 - Yet more fixes for arg_defines() on VMS. [Craig A. Berry and John
161 0.17 Wed Mar 15 22:46:15 CST 2006
163 - When we're being run from an uninstalled perl distribution
164 (e.g. one that's in the process of being built and tested), we
165 search for perl first in the current working directory. [Randy
168 - More fixing of the arg_defines() method on VMS. [Craig A. Berry and
171 0.16 Mon Mar 13 17:08:21 CST 2006
173 - Fix quoting of command line arguments on Windows. [Yitzchak
176 - Provided a custom arg_defines() on VMS that does essentially the
177 same thing for /define that version 0.14 did for /include. [Craig
180 - Documented the existing 'quiet' parameter, which silences the
181 printing of system() commands. [Suggested by Yitzchak
184 0.15 Mon Oct 3 17:10:32 CDT 2005
186 - Several OS/2 fixes have been made, including: 1) adding the
187 necessary version string to DLLs, 2) passing the executable's name
188 to 'ldopts' without the .exe extension, 3) avoiding calling 'env'
189 via the 'shrpenv' thingy, since it triggers a fork() bug. [Ilya
192 - Integrate a couple cleanup-related changes from bleadperl that
193 somehow never got into this copy. [Steve Hay]
195 - Added a new 'defines' parameter to compile(), which gives a
196 platform-independant way to specify various -Dfoo=bar (or the
197 equivalent) compiler defines. [Randy W. Sims]
199 0.14 Mon Sep 19 13:40:37 CDT 2005
201 - Several fixes have been made for VMS, including: 1) there can only
202 be one /include qualifier, so merge multiple /includes into one; 2)
203 make sure the executable is named the same way that dynaloader will
204 look for it; 3) make sure the option files for the exported symbols
205 and the PERLSHR image are passed properly to the linker. [John
208 0.13 Wed Aug 24 20:05:59 CDT 2005
210 - Several temporary files weren't being cleaned up during testing,
211 because the 'cleanup' mechanism was never properly implemented.
212 This is now fixed. [Steve Hay]
214 0.12 Mon May 30 16:40:10 CDT 2005
216 - In order to integrate into the perl core, patches were contributed
217 that a) put a $VERSION variable in each .pm file, b) add a 'quiet'
218 parameter to new() to shut up some of the command-echoing, c)
219 checks for the perl source headers in the CORE/ directory in the
220 perl source tree, not in the post-installation location, and d)
221 adjusts the CWD when running the regression tests under the perl
222 core. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
224 - Various parts of the code were looking for the CORE/ directory in
225 $Config{archlib}, $Config{installarchlib}, and $Config{archlibexp}.
226 Only the latter is correct, so we use that everywhere now.
229 - For Unix-ish platforms, link_executable() will now prefer
230 $Config{cc} to $Config{ld}, because that typically works
231 better. [Jarkko Hietaniemi and H.Merijn Brand]
233 - Prelinking (invoking ExtUtils::Mksymlists to create options-files)
234 is now only done when we're building dynamic libraries. [Yitzchak
237 0.11 Tue Apr 5 20:58:41 CDT 2005
239 - Added a licensing statement to CBuilder.pm. [Spotted by Chip
242 0.10 Mon Mar 14 20:18:19 CST 2005
244 - Split out a few simple routines that format how compile switches
245 are formatted, so that we can override them for platforms like VMS
246 where they're very different.
248 - Fix compile() and link() on VMS. [Help from Michael Schwern and
251 0.09 Tue Feb 8 17:57:41 CST 2005
253 - Fixed a broken link_executable() method on cygwin - it now uses
254 'gcc' instead of $Config{ld} for the linking, because the latter is
255 actually a shell script which calls a perl script which calls gcc
256 in a way that only works for creating shared libraries, not
259 0.08 Tue Jan 18 21:54:11 CST 2005
261 - Fixed a testing error in which I had the prototype wrong for the
262 main() function. [Jose Pedro Oliveira]
264 0.07 Wed Jan 12 21:50:34 CST 2005
266 - Added the link_executable() method, which provides the ability to
267 create standalone executables. This is NOT yet implemented on
268 Windows, and therefore the tests for it are skipped on Win32.
269 [Alberto Manuel Brandao Simoes]
271 - Integrated the latest split_like_shell() for Windows from
272 Module::Build (really need to find a better home for this code...),
273 which now does a much better job of handling quotes and backslashes
274 and so on. [Randy Sims]
276 - Fixed a couple of Windows problems related to the output-file name
277 in link(), and some clobbering of the 'include_dirs' parameter to
278 compile(). [Randy Sims]
280 0.06 Mon Dec 27 22:51:36 CST 2004
282 - Fixed a bug on Unix environments in which our work-around for
283 shell-commands like "FOO=BAR cc" (which is supposed to be turned
284 into "env FOO=BAR cc" to actually work) wasn't being called.
286 0.05 Wed Oct 13 23:09:09 CDT 2004
288 - Fixed a bug in split_like_shell() in which leading whitespace was
289 creating an empty word, manifesting as something like "gcc - no
290 such file or directory" during tests. [Spotted by Warren L. Dodge]
292 - Incorporate another split_like_shell() fix from Module::Build.
294 0.04 Sun Oct 10 00:31:08 CDT 2004
296 - Changed the split_like_shell() method to use the shellwords()
297 function from Text::ParseWords (a core module since 5.0), which
298 does a much better job than the split() we were using.
301 0.03 Fri May 14 23:12:23 CDT 2004
303 - Fixed minor problems with the Build.PL file, the module names
306 - The VMS module declared itself with the wrong package name.
309 0.02 Fri Feb 20 10:17:40 CST 2004
311 - Fixed a bug in .../Platform/Windows.pm, in which compile() was
312 ignoring an 'include_dirs' argument. [Randy Sims]
314 - Fixed a bug in .../Platform/Windows.pm, in which output files were
315 being created in the root directory \ when they should be created
316 in the current directory. [Randy Sims]
319 0.01 Mon Jan 12 08:12:35 CST 2004
321 - Original release, taken from Module::Build's C-building code, with
322 patching help from Randy Sims.