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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xml:id="sec-language-perl">
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<title>Perl</title>
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<para>
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Nixpkgs provides a function <varname>buildPerlPackage</varname>, a generic
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package builder function for any Perl package that has a standard
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<varname>Makefile.PL</varname>. It’s implemented in
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<link
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xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/perl-modules/generic"><filename>pkgs/development/perl-modules/generic</filename></link>.
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</para>
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<para>
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Perl packages from CPAN are defined in
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<link
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xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix"><filename>pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix</filename></link>,
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rather than <filename>pkgs/all-packages.nix</filename>. Most Perl packages
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are so straight-forward to build that they are defined here directly, rather
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than having a separate function for each package called from
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<filename>perl-packages.nix</filename>. However, more complicated packages
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should be put in a separate file, typically in
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<filename>pkgs/development/perl-modules</filename>. Here is an example of the
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former:
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<programlisting>
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ClassC3 = buildPerlPackage rec {
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name = "Class-C3-0.21";
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src = fetchurl {
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url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/F/FL/FLORA/${name}.tar.gz";
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sha256 = "1bl8z095y4js66pwxnm7s853pi9czala4sqc743fdlnk27kq94gz";
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};
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};
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</programlisting>
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Note the use of <literal>mirror://cpan/</literal>, and the
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<literal>${name}</literal> in the URL definition to ensure that the name
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attribute is consistent with the source that we’re actually downloading.
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Perl packages are made available in <filename>all-packages.nix</filename>
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through the variable <varname>perlPackages</varname>. For instance, if you
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have a package that needs <varname>ClassC3</varname>, you would typically
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write
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<programlisting>
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foo = import ../path/to/foo.nix {
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inherit stdenv fetchurl ...;
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inherit (perlPackages) ClassC3;
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};
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</programlisting>
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in <filename>all-packages.nix</filename>. You can test building a Perl
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package as follows:
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<screen>
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<prompt>$ </prompt>nix-build -A perlPackages.ClassC3
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</screen>
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<varname>buildPerlPackage</varname> adds <literal>perl-</literal> to the
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start of the name attribute, so the package above is actually called
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<literal>perl-Class-C3-0.21</literal>. So to install it, you can say:
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<screen>
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<prompt>$ </prompt>nix-env -i perl-Class-C3
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</screen>
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(Of course you can also install using the attribute name: <literal>nix-env -i
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-A perlPackages.ClassC3</literal>.)
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</para>
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<para>
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So what does <varname>buildPerlPackage</varname> do? It does the following:
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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In the configure phase, it calls <literal>perl Makefile.PL</literal> to
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generate a Makefile. You can set the variable
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<varname>makeMakerFlags</varname> to pass flags to
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<filename>Makefile.PL</filename>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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It adds the contents of the <envar>PERL5LIB</envar> environment variable
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to <literal>#! .../bin/perl</literal> line of Perl scripts as
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<literal>-I<replaceable>dir</replaceable></literal> flags. This ensures
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that a script can find its dependencies. (This can cause this shebang line
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to become too long for Darwin to handle; see the note below.)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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In the fixup phase, it writes the propagated build inputs
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(<varname>propagatedBuildInputs</varname>) to the file
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<filename>$out/nix-support/propagated-user-env-packages</filename>.
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<command>nix-env</command> recursively installs all packages listed in
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this file when you install a package that has it. This ensures that a Perl
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package can find its dependencies.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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</para>
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<para>
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<varname>buildPerlPackage</varname> is built on top of
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<varname>stdenv</varname>, so everything can be customised in the usual way.
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For instance, the <literal>BerkeleyDB</literal> module has a
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<varname>preConfigure</varname> hook to generate a configuration file used by
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<filename>Makefile.PL</filename>:
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<programlisting>
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{ buildPerlPackage, fetchurl, db }:
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buildPerlPackage rec {
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name = "BerkeleyDB-0.36";
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src = fetchurl {
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url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/P/PM/PMQS/${name}.tar.gz";
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sha256 = "07xf50riarb60l1h6m2dqmql8q5dij619712fsgw7ach04d8g3z1";
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};
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preConfigure = ''
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echo "LIB = ${db.out}/lib" > config.in
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echo "INCLUDE = ${db.dev}/include" >> config.in
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'';
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}
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</programlisting>
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</para>
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<para>
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Dependencies on other Perl packages can be specified in the
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<varname>buildInputs</varname> and <varname>propagatedBuildInputs</varname>
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attributes. If something is exclusively a build-time dependency, use
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<varname>buildInputs</varname>; if it’s (also) a runtime dependency, use
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<varname>propagatedBuildInputs</varname>. For instance, this builds a Perl
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module that has runtime dependencies on a bunch of other modules:
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<programlisting>
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ClassC3Componentised = buildPerlPackage rec {
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name = "Class-C3-Componentised-1.0004";
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src = fetchurl {
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url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/A/AS/ASH/${name}.tar.gz";
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sha256 = "0xql73jkcdbq4q9m0b0rnca6nrlvf5hyzy8is0crdk65bynvs8q1";
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};
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propagatedBuildInputs = [
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ClassC3 ClassInspector TestException MROCompat
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];
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};
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</programlisting>
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</para>
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<para>
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On Darwin, if a script has too many
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<literal>-I<replaceable>dir</replaceable></literal> flags in its first line
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(its “shebang line”), it will not run. This can be worked around by
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calling the <literal>shortenPerlShebang</literal> function from the
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<literal>postInstall</literal> phase:
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<programlisting>
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{ stdenv, buildPerlPackage, fetchurl, shortenPerlShebang }:
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ImageExifTool = buildPerlPackage {
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pname = "Image-ExifTool";
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version = "11.50";
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src = fetchurl {
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url = "https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/Image-ExifTool-11.50.tar.gz";
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sha256 = "0d8v48y94z8maxkmw1rv7v9m0jg2dc8xbp581njb6yhr7abwqdv3";
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};
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buildInputs = stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin shortenPerlShebang;
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postInstall = stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin ''
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shortenPerlShebang $out/bin/exiftool
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'';
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};
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</programlisting>
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This will remove the <literal>-I</literal> flags from the shebang line,
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rewrite them in the <literal>use lib</literal> form, and put them on the next
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line instead. This function can be given any number of Perl scripts as
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arguments; it will modify them in-place.
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</para>
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<section xml:id="ssec-generation-from-CPAN">
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<title>Generation from CPAN</title>
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<para>
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Nix expressions for Perl packages can be generated (almost) automatically
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from CPAN. This is done by the program
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<command>nix-generate-from-cpan</command>, which can be installed as
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follows:
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</para>
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<screen>
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<prompt>$ </prompt>nix-env -i nix-generate-from-cpan
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</screen>
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<para>
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This program takes a Perl module name, looks it up on CPAN, fetches and
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unpacks the corresponding package, and prints a Nix expression on standard
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output. For example:
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<screen>
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<prompt>$ </prompt>nix-generate-from-cpan XML::Simple
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XMLSimple = buildPerlPackage rec {
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name = "XML-Simple-2.22";
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src = fetchurl {
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url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/G/GR/GRANTM/${name}.tar.gz";
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sha256 = "b9450ef22ea9644ae5d6ada086dc4300fa105be050a2030ebd4efd28c198eb49";
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};
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propagatedBuildInputs = [ XMLNamespaceSupport XMLSAX XMLSAXExpat ];
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meta = {
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description = "An API for simple XML files";
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license = with stdenv.lib.licenses; [ artistic1 gpl1Plus ];
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};
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};
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</screen>
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The output can be pasted into
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<filename>pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix</filename> or wherever else you
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need it.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="ssec-perl-cross-compilation">
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<title>Cross-compiling modules</title>
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<para>
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Nixpkgs has experimental support for cross-compiling Perl modules. In many
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cases, it will just work out of the box, even for modules with native
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extensions. Sometimes, however, the Makefile.PL for a module may
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(indirectly) import a native module. In that case, you will need to make a
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stub for that module that will satisfy the Makefile.PL and install it into
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<filename>lib/perl5/site_perl/cross_perl/${perl.version}</filename>. See the
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<varname>postInstall</varname> for <varname>DBI</varname> for an example.
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</para>
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</section>
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</section>
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