On Tue, 26 May 2009, BRZEZINSKI, PAUL wrote:
>  Doing a reply apparently goes to your inbox not the list?

You can always do a "reply-all". :)  I've re-added the PPM list.

>  I'm working on something right now that is an XS-based extension for
>  Win32 and has a supporting library which is DLL-based. I wanted to
>  figure out how to get this PM and it's required DLL to be installed in
>  the same directory in /perl/site/lib/auto directory structure.
> 
>  Where can I find a good example of a Makefile.PL that
>  facilitates this?

I don't have a good example.  You can see from the build status pages
that I added a patch to DBD-mysql for our builds (patch also attached
below):

http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x86/5.8/818/C/CA/CAPTTOFU/DBD-mysql-4.011.d/log-20090525
T163439.txt

That patch is cutting several corners though, as I knew it only had
to work on the Windows PPM build servers, so I already know the OS,
the minimum MakeMaker version installed there and where to find the
MySQL dll.

But you should be able to adapt the general idea to your needs.

>  Is this LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH transparent to the developer or
>  does one have to explicitly use/set this when making, building or
>  packaging a module?

It is always used by DynaLoader (and XSLoader) when it loads an XS
extension.

Cheers,
-Jan

PS: Note that I made copy_libmysql dependent on $(INST_DYNAMIC) to make
    sure $(INST_ARCHAUTODIR) has actually been created by the time the
    copy is happening.

C:\cygwin\bin\patch.exe -N --fuzz=3 -p0 <<EOT
--- Makefile.PL.orig	2009-04-13 05:10:40.000000000 -0700
+++ Makefile.PL	2009-05-25 15:15:47.951000000 -0700
@@ -749,6 +749,11 @@
 installhtml: lib/DBD/mysql/INSTALL.pod
 \tpod2html --infile=lib/DBD/mysql/INSTALL.pod --outfile=INSTALL.html
 
+all :: copy_libmysql
+
+copy_libmysql : \$(INST_DYNAMIC) c:\\mysql\\lib\\opt\\libmysql.dll
+\tcopy c:\\mysql\\lib\\opt\\libmysql.dll \$(INST_ARCHAUTODIR)
+
 POSTAMBLE
 };
 
EOT


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