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Evan Carroll
Evan Carroll

Reputation: 1

How can I test if a module is compatible with the Perl compiler (perlcc)?

Is there a way, given a module on CPAN to determine if that module can run in the Perl Compiler, (perlcc).

If I try to compile the testing suite itself, running the ./t files does not produce any output.

Here is test.t,

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Test::More;  
ok(1);
done_testing;

If I run it I get,

$ perl ./t/test.t 
ok 1
1..1

But if I compile it using perlcc ./t/test.t and run that ./t/test I get no output.

Is there a method to test a module for compatibility with the Perl compiler?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 237

Answers (1)

rurban
rurban

Reputation: 4131

The answer is:

Yes, compile and run it with perlcc to see if it works.

You can also check the log.modules* lists at https://github.com/rurban/perl-compiler/ or with the compiler, to see if your modules compiles with your particular perl version. It depends on the version, threaded or not (nt) or cperl (c) or perl5.

Until 5.24 or so about 95% of all modules, as well as the full perl5 core testsuite tested fine. Later p5p broke it and refused to fix its regressions. That's why you have to use cperl, where the perl5 bugs were fixed and where it's supported.

Upvotes: 1

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