Building Perl projects with MakeMaker
By Sean Dague2005-05-01
The Module that Makes Makefiles and Much More
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If you've used UNIX or Linux for some period of time, you've probably written a few Perl programs to automate simple tasks. Each of these programs does something basic and simple that might otherwise take you 10 or 20 minutes to do by hand. In this article, Sean will show you how to convert just such a Perl program into a far more robust programming project, one that will be generic enough to be widely distributed across many disparate platforms.
Tutorial Pages:
» The Module that Makes Makefiles and Much More
» Programming Products vs. Programs
» Anatomy of a MakeMaker Project
» Your First MakeMaker Project (make)
» Building Test Cases (make test)
» Installation (make install)
» Distributing Your Code (make dist)
» Conclusion
» Resources
First published by IBM DeveloperWorks
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