Re: Best way to compile with CPAN Glib?

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

On 14.03.2012 17:39, Jeffrey Kegler wrote:
> What is the correct, supported way for me to get the information to
> compile my XS code with Glib?  Should I be getting the compile and load
> arguments/flags from ExtUtils::Depends?

Using ExtUtils::Depends should work fine, yes.  But if you don't 
actually use any of the Perl bindings that CPAN Glib provides, then you 
could also use ExtUtils::PkgConfig directly to find the necessary 
information about C glib, like CPAN Glib does in its Makefile.PL.

> Also, I need to ensure that the version of GNU glib is greater than
> or equal to 2.22.0.  Is Glib->CHECK_VERSION( 2, 22, 0 ) the right way
> to do this?

This function is a thin wrapper around the GLIB_CHECK_VERSION macro, 
which checks against the compile-time version.  But if you need to 
ensure that you are actually running with a glib >= 2.22.0, then check 
against Glib::major_version, Glib::minor_version and Glib::micro_version 
as described in `perldoc Glib::version`.  (Unfortunately, we don't seem 
to wrap glib_check_version yet).