NAME

Module::Build::Tiny - A tiny replacement for Module::Build

VERSION

version 0.052

SYNOPSIS

 use Module::Build::Tiny;
 Build_PL();

DESCRIPTION

Many Perl distributions use a Build.PL file instead of a Makefile.PL file to drive distribution configuration, build, test and installation. Traditionally, Build.PL uses Module::Build as the underlying build system. This module provides a simple, lightweight, drop-in replacement.

Whereas Module::Build has over 6,700 lines of code; this module has less than 200, yet supports the features needed by most distributions.

Supported

Pure Perl distributions
Building XS or C
Recursive test files
MYMETA
Man page generation
Generated code from PL files
Module sharedirs
Dynamic prerequisites

Not Supported

HTML documentation generation
Extending Module::Build::Tiny

Directory structure

Your .pm, .xs and .pod files must be in lib/. Any executables must be in script/. Test files must be in t/. Dist sharedirs must be in share/, module sharedirs are under module-share (e.g. module-share/Foo-Bar for module "Foo::Bar").

".c" files in the src/ are compiled together with the .xs file matching the distribution name.

USAGE

These all work pretty much like their Module::Build equivalents.

perl Build.PL

Build [ build ]

Build test

Build install

This supports the following options:

verbose
install_base
installdirs
prefix
install_path
destdir
uninst
config
pure-perl
create_packlist

AUTHORING

This module doesn't support authoring. To develop modules using Module::Build::Tiny, usage of Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ModuleBuildTiny or App::ModuleBuildTiny is recommended.

CONFIG FILE AND ENVIRONMENT

Options can be provided in the "PERL_MB_OPT" environment variable the same way they can with Module::Build. This should be done during the configuration stage.

Incompatibilities

Argument parsing
Module::Build has an extremely permissive way of argument handling, Module::Build::Tiny only supports a (sane) subset of that. In particular, "./Build destdir=/foo" does not work, you will need to pass it as "./Build --destdir=/foo".
.modulebuildrc
Module::Build::Tiny does not support .modulebuildrc files. In particular, this means that versions of local::lib older than 1.006008 may break with "ERROR: Can't create /usr/local/somepath". If the output of "perl -Mlocal::lib" contains "MODULEBUILDRC" but not "PERL_MB_OPT ", you will need to upgrade it to resolve this issue.

AUTHORS

Leon Timmermans <leont@cpan.org>
David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.