Re: 'realclean' cleans up all files specified in 'OBJECT'

Sisyphus wrote:
> Using EU::MM-6.36.
> On Win32, I've been doing stuff in a Makefile.PL like:
> 
> ===========================
> .
> .
> # If we're using an MS compiler we need to additionally link
> # to MinGW's libgcc.a (for this particular module).
> if($Config{cc} eq 'cl') {
>  $hash{OBJECT} = '/full/path/to/libgcc.a';
> }
> WriteMakefile(%hash);
> ===========================
> 
> Unfortunately running 'nmake realclean' will now clean up libgcc.a ...
> which is not what I really wanted to happen.
> I want 'realclean' to simply clean up all of the "derived files" - as
> per the documentation. I deduce that 'OBJECT' is therefore reserved for
> "derived files" and that there must be a better way to conditionally
> link to pre-existing libraries that have an extension that differs from
> $Config{lib_ext}.
> 
> How *should* I be doing it ?
> 
> Doing it with 'LIBS' is probably not all that straightforward as
> '-L/full/path/to -lgcc' will look for '/full/path/to/libgcc.lib' and
> fail to find '/full/path/to/libgcc.a'. (Note that $Config{lib_ext} is
> usually '.lib' when Sconfig{cc} is 'cl'.)

There seems to be about four different non-standard things going on here.  So
of fighting all that, maybe just symlink the non-standard library into your
working directory and put that into OBJECT?

Or might LDFROM and/or dynamic_lib be useful?


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