NAME

    Alien::Libxml2 - Install the C libxml2 library on your system

VERSION

    version 0.12

SYNOPSIS

    In your Build.PL:

     use Module::Build;
     use Alien::Libxml2;
     my $builder = Module::Build->new(
       ...
       configure_requires => {
         'Alien::Libxml2' => '0',
         ...
       },
       extra_compiler_flags => Alien::Libxml2->cflags,
       extra_linker_flags   => Alien::Libxml2->libs,
       ...
     );
     
     $build->create_build_script;

    In your Makefile.PL:

     use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
     use Config;
     use Alien::Libxml2;
     
     WriteMakefile(
       ...
       CONFIGURE_REQUIRES => {
         'Alien::Libxml2' => '0',
       },
       CCFLAGS => Alien::Libxml2->cflags . " $Config{ccflags}",
       LIBS    => [ Alien::Libxml2->libs ],
       ...
     );

    In your FFI::Platypus script or module:

     use FFI::Platypus;
     use Alien::Libxml2;
     
     my $ffi = FFI::Platypus->new(
       lib => [ Alien::Libxml2->dynamic_libs ],
     );

DESCRIPTION

    This module provides libxml2 for other modules to use. There was an
    already existing Alien::LibXML, but it uses the older
    Alien::Build::ModuleBuild and has not been actively maintained for a
    while.

CAVEATS

    libxml2 has some optional prereqs, including zlib and iconv. For a
    share install you will want to make sure that these are installed prior
    to installing Alien::Libxml2 if you want to make use of features
    relying on them.

    For a system install, you want to make sure the development packages
    for libxml2, zlib and iconv are installed if libxml2 has been
    configured to use them, otherwise XML::LibXML will not install as
    expected. If the tests for this module fail with a missing iconv.h or
    zlib.h, then this is likely the reason.

SEE ALSO

    Alien::LibXML

      Unmaintained Alien for the same library.

AUTHOR

    Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

    Contributors:

    Shlomi Fish (shlomif)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

    This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Graham Ollis.

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

