1 package ExtUtils::Liblist;
3 # Broken out of MakeMaker from version 4.11
5 $VERSION = substr q$Revision: 1.25 $, 10;
12 if ($^O eq 'VMS') { return &_vms_ext; }
13 elsif($^O eq 'MSWin32') { return &_win32_ext; }
14 else { return &_unix_os2_ext; }
18 my($self,$potential_libs, $verbose) = @_;
19 if ($^O =~ 'os2' and $Config{libs}) {
20 # Dynamic libraries are not transitive, so we may need including
21 # the libraries linked against perl.dll again.
23 $potential_libs .= " " if $potential_libs;
24 $potential_libs .= $Config{libs};
26 return ("", "", "", "") unless $potential_libs;
27 warn "Potential libraries are '$potential_libs':\n" if $verbose;
29 my($so) = $Config{'so'};
30 my($libs) = $Config{'libs'};
31 my $Config_libext = $Config{lib_ext} || ".a";
34 # compute $extralibs, $bsloadlibs and $ldloadlibs from
36 # this is a rewrite of Andy Dougherty's extliblist in perl
38 my(@searchpath); # from "-L/path" entries in $potential_libs
39 my(@libpath) = split " ", $Config{'libpth'};
40 my(@ldloadlibs, @bsloadlibs, @extralibs, @ld_run_path, %ld_run_path_seen);
41 my($fullname, $thislib, $thispth, @fullname);
42 my($pwd) = cwd(); # from Cwd.pm
45 foreach $thislib (split ' ', $potential_libs){
47 # Handle possible linker path arguments.
48 if ($thislib =~ s/^(-[LR])//){ # save path flag type
51 warn "$ptype$thislib ignored, directory does not exist\n"
55 unless ($self->file_name_is_absolute($thislib)) {
56 warn "Warning: $ptype$thislib changed to $ptype$pwd/$thislib\n";
57 $thislib = $self->catdir($pwd,$thislib);
59 push(@searchpath, $thislib);
60 push(@extralibs, "$ptype$thislib");
61 push(@ldloadlibs, "$ptype$thislib");
65 # Handle possible library arguments.
66 unless ($thislib =~ s/^-l//){
67 warn "Unrecognized argument in LIBS ignored: '$thislib'\n";
72 foreach $thispth (@searchpath, @libpath){
74 # Try to find the full name of the library. We need this to
75 # determine whether it's a dynamically-loadable library or not.
76 # This tends to be subject to various os-specific quirks.
77 # For gcc-2.6.2 on linux (March 1995), DLD can not load
78 # .sa libraries, with the exception of libm.sa, so we
79 # deliberately skip them.
81 $self->lsdir($thispth,"^\Qlib$thislib.$so.\E[0-9]+")){
82 # Take care that libfoo.so.10 wins against libfoo.so.9.
83 # Compare two libraries to find the most recent version
84 # number. E.g. if you have libfoo.so.9.0.7 and
85 # libfoo.so.10.1, first convert all digits into two
86 # decimal places. Then we'll add ".00" to the shorter
87 # strings so that we're comparing strings of equal length
88 # Thus we'll compare libfoo.so.09.07.00 with
89 # libfoo.so.10.01.00. Some libraries might have letters
90 # in the version. We don't know what they mean, but will
91 # try to skip them gracefully -- we'll set any letter to
92 # '0'. Finally, sort in reverse so we can take the
95 #TODO: iterate through the directory instead of sorting
97 $fullname = "$thispth/" .
100 $ma =~ tr/A-Za-z/0/s;
101 $ma =~ s/\b(\d)\b/0$1/g;
102 $mb =~ tr/A-Za-z/0/s;
103 $mb =~ s/\b(\d)\b/0$1/g;
104 while (length($ma) < length($mb)) { $ma .= ".00"; }
105 while (length($mb) < length($ma)) { $mb .= ".00"; }
106 # Comparison deliberately backwards
107 $mb cmp $ma;} @fullname)[0];
108 } elsif (-f ($fullname="$thispth/lib$thislib.$so")
109 && (($Config{'dlsrc'} ne "dl_dld.xs") || ($thislib eq "m"))){
110 } elsif (-f ($fullname="$thispth/lib${thislib}_s$Config_libext")
111 && ($thislib .= "_s") ){ # we must explicitly use _s version
112 } elsif (-f ($fullname="$thispth/lib$thislib$Config_libext")){
113 } elsif (-f ($fullname="$thispth/$thislib$Config_libext")){
114 } elsif (-f ($fullname="$thispth/Slib$thislib$Config_libext")){
115 } elsif ($^O eq 'dgux'
116 && -l ($fullname="$thispth/lib$thislib$Config_libext")
117 && readlink($fullname) =~ /^elink:/) {
118 # Some of DG's libraries look like misconnected symbolic
119 # links, but development tools can follow them. (They
122 # libm.a -> elink:${SDE_PATH:-/usr}/sde/\
123 # ${TARGET_BINARY_INTERFACE:-m88kdgux}/usr/lib/libm.a
125 # , the compilation tools expand the environment variables.)
127 warn "$thislib not found in $thispth\n" if $verbose;
130 warn "'-l$thislib' found at $fullname\n" if $verbose;
131 my($fullnamedir) = dirname($fullname);
132 push @ld_run_path, $fullnamedir unless $ld_run_path_seen{$fullnamedir}++;
136 # Now update library lists
138 # what do we know about this library...
139 my $is_dyna = ($fullname !~ /\Q$Config_libext\E$/);
140 my $in_perl = ($libs =~ /\B-l\Q$ {thislib}\E\b/s);
142 # Do not add it into the list if it is already linked in
143 # with the main perl executable.
144 # We have to special-case the NeXT, because math and ndbm
145 # are both in libsys_s
147 ($Config{'osname'} eq 'next' &&
148 ($thislib eq 'm' || $thislib eq 'ndbm')) ){
149 push(@extralibs, "-l$thislib");
152 # We might be able to load this archive file dynamically
153 if ( ($Config{'dlsrc'} =~ /dl_next/ && $Config{'osvers'} lt '4_0')
154 || ($Config{'dlsrc'} =~ /dl_dld/) )
156 # We push -l$thislib instead of $fullname because
157 # it avoids hardwiring a fixed path into the .bs file.
158 # Mkbootstrap will automatically add dl_findfile() to
159 # the .bs file if it sees a name in the -l format.
160 # USE THIS, when dl_findfile() is fixed:
161 # push(@bsloadlibs, "-l$thislib");
162 # OLD USE WAS while checking results against old_extliblist
163 push(@bsloadlibs, "$fullname");
166 # For SunOS4, do not add in this shared library if
167 # it is already linked in the main perl executable
168 push(@ldloadlibs, "-l$thislib")
169 unless ($in_perl and $^O eq 'sunos');
171 push(@ldloadlibs, "-l$thislib");
174 last; # found one here so don't bother looking further
176 warn "Note (probably harmless): "
177 ."No library found for -l$thislib\n"
180 return ('','','','') unless $found;
181 ("@extralibs", "@bsloadlibs", "@ldloadlibs",join(":",@ld_run_path));
186 require Text::ParseWords;
188 my($self, $potential_libs, $verbose) = @_;
190 # If user did not supply a list, we punt.
191 # (caller should probably use the list in $Config{libs})
192 return ("", "", "", "") unless $potential_libs;
194 my $cc = $Config{cc};
195 my $VC = 1 if $cc =~ /^cl/i;
196 my $BC = 1 if $cc =~ /^bcc/i;
197 my $GC = 1 if $cc =~ /^gcc/i;
198 my $so = $Config{'so'};
199 my $libs = $Config{'libs'};
200 my $libpth = $Config{'libpth'};
201 my $libext = $Config{'lib_ext'} || ".lib";
203 if ($libs and $potential_libs !~ /:nodefault/i) {
204 # If Config.pm defines a set of default libs, we always
205 # tack them on to the user-supplied list, unless the user
206 # specified :nodefault
208 $potential_libs .= " " if $potential_libs;
209 $potential_libs .= $libs;
211 warn "Potential libraries are '$potential_libs':\n" if $verbose;
213 # normalize to forward slashes
215 $potential_libs =~ s,\\,/,g;
217 # compute $extralibs from $potential_libs
219 my @searchpath; # from "-L/path" in $potential_libs
220 my @libpath = Text::ParseWords::quotewords('\s+', 0, $libpth);
222 my $pwd = cwd(); # from Cwd.pm
226 my($fullname, $thislib, $thispth);
228 foreach (Text::ParseWords::quotewords('\s+', 0, $potential_libs)){
232 # see if entry is a flag
234 $search = 0 if lc eq ':nosearch';
235 $search = 1 if lc eq ':search';
236 warn "Ignoring unknown flag '$thislib'\n"
237 if $verbose and !/^:(no)?(search|default)$/i;
241 # if searching is disabled, do compiler-specific translations
243 s/^-L/-libpath:/ if $VC;
244 s/^-l(.+)$/$1.lib/ unless $GC;
245 push(@extralibs, $_);
250 # handle possible linker path arguments
251 if (s/^-L// and not -d) {
252 warn "$thislib ignored, directory does not exist\n"
257 unless ($self->file_name_is_absolute($_)) {
258 warn "Warning: '$thislib' changed to '-L$pwd/$_'\n";
259 $_ = $self->catdir($pwd,$_);
261 push(@searchpath, $_);
265 # handle possible library arguments
266 if (s/^-l// and $GC and !/^lib/i) {
269 $_ .= $libext if !/\Q$libext\E$/i;
274 # look for the file itself
276 warn "'$thislib' found as '$_'\n" if $verbose;
278 push(@extralibs, $_);
283 foreach $thispth (@searchpath, @libpath){
284 unless (-f ($fullname="$thispth\\$_")) {
285 warn "'$thislib' not found as '$fullname'\n" if $verbose;
288 warn "'$thislib' found as '$fullname'\n" if $verbose;
291 push(@extralibs, $fullname);
295 # do another pass with (or without) leading 'lib' if they used -l
296 if (!$found_lib and $thislib =~ /^-l/ and !$secondpass++) {
298 goto LOOKAGAIN if s/^lib//i;
307 warn "Note (probably harmless): "
308 ."No library found for '$thislib'\n"
313 return ('','','','') unless $found;
315 # make sure paths with spaces are properly quoted
316 @extralibs = map { (/\s/ && !/^".*"$/) ? qq["$_"] : $_ } @extralibs;
317 $lib = join(' ',@extralibs);
319 # normalize back to backward slashes (to help braindead tools)
320 # XXX this may break equally braindead GNU tools that don't understand
321 # backslashes, either. Seems like one can't win here. Cursed be CP/M.
324 warn "Result: $lib\n" if $verbose;
325 wantarray ? ($lib, '', $lib, '') : $lib;
330 my($self, $potential_libs,$verbose) = @_;
332 my($dbgqual) = $self->{OPTIMIZE} || $Config{'optimize'} ||
333 $self->{CCFLAS} || $Config{'ccflags'};
334 @crtls = ( ($dbgqual =~ m-/Debug-i ? $Config{'dbgprefix'} : '')
336 push(@crtls, grep { not /\(/ } split /\s+/, $Config{'libs'});
337 push(@crtls, grep { not /\(/ } split /\s+/, $Config{'libc'});
338 # In general, we pass through the basic libraries from %Config unchanged.
339 # The one exception is that if we're building in the Perl source tree, and
340 # a library spec could be resolved via a logical name, we go to some trouble
341 # to insure that the copy in the local tree is used, rather than one to
342 # which a system-wide logical may point.
343 if ($self->{PERL_SRC}) {
344 my($lib,$locspec,$type);
345 foreach $lib (@crtls) {
346 if (($locspec,$type) = $lib =~ m-^([\w$\-]+)(/\w+)?- and $locspec =~ /perl/i) {
347 if (lc $type eq '/share') { $locspec .= $Config{'exe_ext'}; }
348 elsif (lc $type eq '/library') { $locspec .= $Config{'lib_ext'}; }
349 else { $locspec .= $Config{'obj_ext'}; }
350 $locspec = $self->catfile($self->{PERL_SRC},$locspec);
351 $lib = "$locspec$type" if -e $locspec;
355 $crtlstr = @crtls ? join(' ',@crtls) : '';
357 unless ($potential_libs) {
358 warn "Result:\n\tEXTRALIBS: \n\tLDLOADLIBS: $crtlstr\n" if $verbose;
359 return ('', '', $crtlstr, '');
362 my(@dirs,@libs,$dir,$lib,%sh,%olb,%obj,$ldlib);
364 my($so,$lib_ext,$obj_ext) = @Config{'so','lib_ext','obj_ext'};
365 # List of common Unix library names and there VMS equivalents
366 # (VMS equivalent of '' indicates that the library is automatially
367 # searched by the linker, and should be skipped here.)
368 my %libmap = ( 'm' => '', 'f77' => '', 'F77' => '', 'V77' => '', 'c' => '',
369 'malloc' => '', 'crypt' => '', 'resolv' => '', 'c_s' => '',
370 'socket' => '', 'X11' => 'DECW$XLIBSHR',
371 'Xt' => 'DECW$XTSHR', 'Xm' => 'DECW$XMLIBSHR',
372 'Xmu' => 'DECW$XMULIBSHR');
373 if ($Config{'vms_cc_type'} ne 'decc') { $libmap{'curses'} = 'VAXCCURSE'; }
375 warn "Potential libraries are '$potential_libs'\n" if $verbose;
377 # First, sort out directories and library names in the input
378 foreach $lib (split ' ',$potential_libs) {
379 push(@dirs,$1), next if $lib =~ /^-L(.*)/;
380 push(@dirs,$lib), next if $lib =~ /[:>\]]$/;
381 push(@dirs,$lib), next if -d $lib;
382 push(@libs,$1), next if $lib =~ /^-l(.*)/;
385 push(@dirs,split(' ',$Config{'libpth'}));
387 # Now make sure we've got VMS-syntax absolute directory specs
388 # (We don't, however, check whether someone's hidden a relative
389 # path in a logical name.)
390 foreach $dir (@dirs) {
392 warn "Skipping nonexistent Directory $dir\n" if $verbose > 1;
396 warn "Resolving directory $dir\n" if $verbose;
397 if ($self->file_name_is_absolute($dir)) { $dir = $self->fixpath($dir,1); }
398 else { $dir = $self->catdir($cwd,$dir); }
400 @dirs = grep { length($_) } @dirs;
401 unshift(@dirs,''); # Check each $lib without additions first
403 LIB: foreach $lib (@libs) {
404 if (exists $libmap{$lib}) {
405 next unless length $libmap{$lib};
406 $lib = $libmap{$lib};
409 my(@variants,$variant,$name,$test,$cand);
412 # If we don't have a file type, consider it a possibly abbreviated name and
413 # check for common variants. We try these first to grab libraries before
414 # a like-named executable image (e.g. -lperl resolves to perlshr.exe
416 if ($lib !~ /\.[^:>\]]*$/) {
417 push(@variants,"${lib}shr","${lib}rtl","${lib}lib");
418 push(@variants,"lib$lib") if $lib !~ /[:>\]]/;
420 push(@variants,$lib);
421 warn "Looking for $lib\n" if $verbose;
422 foreach $variant (@variants) {
423 foreach $dir (@dirs) {
426 $name = "$dir$variant";
427 warn "\tChecking $name\n" if $verbose > 2;
428 if (-f ($test = VMS::Filespec::rmsexpand($name))) {
429 # It's got its own suffix, so we'll have to figure out the type
430 if ($test =~ /(?:$so|exe)$/i) { $type = 'sh'; }
431 elsif ($test =~ /(?:$lib_ext|olb)$/i) { $type = 'olb'; }
432 elsif ($test =~ /(?:$obj_ext|obj)$/i) {
433 warn "Note (probably harmless): "
434 ."Plain object file $test found in library list\n";
438 warn "Note (probably harmless): "
439 ."Unknown library type for $test; assuming shared\n";
443 elsif (-f ($test = VMS::Filespec::rmsexpand($name,$so)) or
444 -f ($test = VMS::Filespec::rmsexpand($name,'.exe'))) {
446 $name = $test unless $test =~ /exe;?\d*$/i;
448 elsif (not length($ctype) and # If we've got a lib already, don't bother
449 ( -f ($test = VMS::Filespec::rmsexpand($name,$lib_ext)) or
450 -f ($test = VMS::Filespec::rmsexpand($name,'.olb')))) {
452 $name = $test unless $test =~ /olb;?\d*$/i;
454 elsif (not length($ctype) and # If we've got a lib already, don't bother
455 ( -f ($test = VMS::Filespec::rmsexpand($name,$obj_ext)) or
456 -f ($test = VMS::Filespec::rmsexpand($name,'.obj')))) {
457 warn "Note (probably harmless): "
458 ."Plain object file $test found in library list\n";
460 $name = $test unless $test =~ /obj;?\d*$/i;
463 $ctype = $type; $cand = $name;
464 last if $ctype eq 'sh';
468 eval '$' . $ctype . "{'$cand'}++";
469 die "Error recording library: $@" if $@;
470 warn "\tFound as $cand (really $test), type $ctype\n" if $verbose > 1;
474 warn "Note (probably harmless): "
475 ."No library found for $lib\n";
478 @libs = sort keys %obj;
479 # This has to precede any other CRTLs, so just make it first
480 if ($olb{VAXCCURSE}) {
481 push(@libs,"$olb{VAXCCURSE}/Library");
482 delete $olb{VAXCCURSE};
484 push(@libs, map { "$_/Library" } sort keys %olb);
485 push(@libs, map { "$_/Share" } sort keys %sh);
486 $lib = join(' ',@libs);
488 $ldlib = $crtlstr ? "$lib $crtlstr" : $lib;
489 warn "Result:\n\tEXTRALIBS: $lib\n\tLDLOADLIBS: $ldlib\n" if $verbose;
490 wantarray ? ($lib, '', $ldlib, '') : $lib;
499 ExtUtils::Liblist - determine libraries to use and how to use them
503 C<require ExtUtils::Liblist;>
505 C<ExtUtils::Liblist::ext($self, $potential_libs, $verbose);>
509 This utility takes a list of libraries in the form C<-llib1 -llib2
510 -llib3> and prints out lines suitable for inclusion in an extension
511 Makefile. Extra library paths may be included with the form
512 C<-L/another/path> this will affect the searches for all subsequent
515 It returns an array of four scalar values: EXTRALIBS, BSLOADLIBS,
516 LDLOADLIBS, and LD_RUN_PATH. Some of these don't mean anything
517 on VMS and Win32. See the details about those platform specifics
520 Dependent libraries can be linked in one of three ways:
524 =item * For static extensions
526 by the ld command when the perl binary is linked with the extension
527 library. See EXTRALIBS below.
529 =item * For dynamic extensions
531 by the ld command when the shared object is built/linked. See
534 =item * For dynamic extensions
536 by the DynaLoader when the shared object is loaded. See BSLOADLIBS
543 List of libraries that need to be linked with when linking a perl
544 binary which includes this extension Only those libraries that
545 actually exist are included. These are written to a file and used
548 =head2 LDLOADLIBS and LD_RUN_PATH
550 List of those libraries which can or must be linked into the shared
551 library when created using ld. These may be static or dynamic
552 libraries. LD_RUN_PATH is a colon separated list of the directories
553 in LDLOADLIBS. It is passed as an environment variable to the process
554 that links the shared library.
558 List of those libraries that are needed but can be linked in
559 dynamically at run time on this platform. SunOS/Solaris does not need
560 this because ld records the information (from LDLOADLIBS) into the
561 object file. This list is used to create a .bs (bootstrap) file.
565 This module deals with a lot of system dependencies and has quite a
566 few architecture specific B<if>s in the code.
568 =head2 VMS implementation
570 The version of ext() which is executed under VMS differs from the
571 Unix-OS/2 version in several respects:
577 Input library and path specifications are accepted with or without the
578 C<-l> and C<-L> prefices used by Unix linkers. If neither prefix is
579 present, a token is considered a directory to search if it is in fact
580 a directory, and a library to search for otherwise. Authors who wish
581 their extensions to be portable to Unix or OS/2 should use the Unix
582 prefixes, since the Unix-OS/2 version of ext() requires them.
586 Wherever possible, shareable images are preferred to object libraries,
587 and object libraries to plain object files. In accordance with VMS
588 naming conventions, ext() looks for files named I<lib>shr and I<lib>rtl;
589 it also looks for I<lib>lib and libI<lib> to accomodate Unix conventions
590 used in some ported software.
594 For each library that is found, an appropriate directive for a linker options
595 file is generated. The return values are space-separated strings of
596 these directives, rather than elements used on the linker command line.
600 LDLOADLIBS contains both the libraries found based on C<$potential_libs> and
601 the CRTLs, if any, specified in Config.pm. EXTRALIBS contains just those
602 libraries found based on C<$potential_libs>. BSLOADLIBS and LD_RUN_PATH
607 In addition, an attempt is made to recognize several common Unix library
608 names, and filter them out or convert them to their VMS equivalents, as
611 In general, the VMS version of ext() should properly handle input from
612 extensions originally designed for a Unix or VMS environment. If you
613 encounter problems, or discover cases where the search could be improved,
616 =head2 Win32 implementation
618 The version of ext() which is executed under Win32 differs from the
619 Unix-OS/2 version in several respects:
625 If C<$potential_libs> is empty, the return value will be empty.
626 Otherwise, the libraries specified by C<$Config{libs}> (see Config.pm)
627 will be appended to the list of C<$potential_libs>. The libraries
628 will be searched for in the directories specified in C<$potential_libs>
629 as well as in C<$Config{libpth}>. For each library that is found, a
630 space-separated list of fully qualified library pathnames is generated.
634 Input library and path specifications are accepted with or without the
635 C<-l> and C<-L> prefices used by Unix linkers.
637 An entry of the form C<-La:\foo> specifies the C<a:\foo> directory to look
638 for the libraries that follow.
640 An entry of the form C<-lfoo> specifies the library C<foo>, which may be
641 spelled differently depending on what kind of compiler you are using. If
642 you are using GCC, it gets translated to C<libfoo.a>, but for other win32
643 compilers, it becomes C<foo.lib>. If no files are found by those translated
644 names, one more attempt is made to find them using either C<foo.a> or
645 C<libfoo.lib>, depending on whether GCC or some other win32 compiler is
646 being used, respectively.
648 If neither the C<-L> or C<-l> prefix is present in an entry, the entry is
649 considered a directory to search if it is in fact a directory, and a
650 library to search for otherwise. The C<$Config{lib_ext}> suffix will
651 be appended to any entries that are not directories and don't already have
654 Note that the C<-L> and <-l> prefixes are B<not required>, but authors
655 who wish their extensions to be portable to Unix or OS/2 should use the
656 prefixes, since the Unix-OS/2 version of ext() requires them.
660 Entries cannot be plain object files, as many Win32 compilers will
661 not handle object files in the place of libraries.
665 Entries in C<$potential_libs> beginning with a colon and followed by
666 alphanumeric characters are treated as flags. Unknown flags will be ignored.
668 An entry that matches C</:nodefault/i> disables the appending of default
669 libraries found in C<$Config{libs}> (this should be only needed very rarely).
671 An entry that matches C</:nosearch/i> disables all searching for
672 the libraries specified after it. Translation of C<-Lfoo> and
673 C<-lfoo> still happens as appropriate (depending on compiler being used,
674 as reflected by C<$Config{cc}>), but the entries are not verified to be
675 valid files or directories.
677 An entry that matches C</:search/i> reenables searching for
678 the libraries specified after it. You can put it at the end to
679 enable searching for default libraries specified by C<$Config{libs}>.
683 The libraries specified may be a mixture of static libraries and
684 import libraries (to link with DLLs). Since both kinds are used
685 pretty transparently on the win32 platform, we do not attempt to
686 distinguish between them.
690 LDLOADLIBS and EXTRALIBS are always identical under Win32, and BSLOADLIBS
691 and LD_RUN_PATH are always empty (this may change in future).
695 You must make sure that any paths and path components are properly
696 surrounded with double-quotes if they contain spaces. For example,
697 C<$potential_libs> could be (literally):
699 "-Lc:\Program Files\vc\lib" msvcrt.lib "la test\foo bar.lib"
701 Note how the first and last entries are protected by quotes in order
702 to protect the spaces.
706 Since this module is most often used only indirectly from extension
707 C<Makefile.PL> files, here is an example C<Makefile.PL> entry to add
708 a library to the build process for an extension:
712 When using GCC, that entry specifies that MakeMaker should first look
713 for C<libgl.a> (followed by C<gl.a>) in all the locations specified by
716 When using a compiler other than GCC, the above entry will search for
717 C<gl.lib> (followed by C<libgl.lib>).
719 If the library happens to be in a location not in C<$Config{libpth}>,
722 LIBS => ['-Lc:\gllibs -lgl']
724 Here is a less often used example:
726 LIBS => ['-lgl', ':nosearch -Ld:\mesalibs -lmesa -luser32']
728 This specifies a search for library C<gl> as before. If that search
729 fails to find the library, it looks at the next item in the list. The
730 C<:nosearch> flag will prevent searching for the libraries that follow,
731 so it simply returns the value as C<-Ld:\mesalibs -lmesa -luser32>,
732 since GCC can use that value as is with its linker.
734 When using the Visual C compiler, the second item is returned as
735 C<-libpath:d:\mesalibs mesa.lib user32.lib>.
737 When using the Borland compiler, the second item is returned as
738 C<-Ld:\mesalibs mesa.lib user32.lib>, and MakeMaker takes care of
739 moving the C<-Ld:\mesalibs> to the correct place in the linker
747 L<ExtUtils::MakeMaker>