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Re^2: debugging perl bindings on a C library

by salva (Canon)
on Oct 22, 2009 at 23:34 UTC ( [id://802817]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: debugging perl bindings on a C library
in thread debugging perl bindings on a C library

First: if you're using a distro supplied perl, make sure you've got the perl-debug package installed

... otherwise, just compile your own debugging perl. It is quite easy:

  1. Get the http://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/src perl source from CPAN
  2. Unpack it and cd into the directory
  3. Run ./Configure accepting the defaults for all the questions but these two:
    1. Where do you want to place the debugging perl?, for instance:
      Installation prefix to use? (~name ok) [/usr/local] /usr/local/perl/5.10.1-debug
    2. Which C optimizer flags to use:
      What optimizer/debugger flag should be used? [-O2] -g -O0
    3. well, maybe you would like to also activate threads or other minor features.
  4. make && make test && sudo make install
Then, to compile your module using this new perl, all you have to do is run Makefile.PL with it. For instance:
$ cd Foo-Bar-1.0 $ /usr/local/perl/5.10.1/bin/perl Makefile.PL $ make $ make test

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