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1use strict;
2use Config;
3
4sub to_string {
5    my ($value) = @_;
6    $value =~ s/\\/\\\\/g;
7    $value =~ s/'/\\'/g;
8    return "'$value'";
9}
10
111 while unlink "XSLoader.pm";
12open OUT, ">XSLoader.pm" or die $!;
13print OUT <<'EOT';
14# Generated from XSLoader.pm.PL (resolved %Config::Config value)
15
16package XSLoader;
17
18$VERSION = "0.10";
19
20#use strict;
21
22# enable debug/trace messages from DynaLoader perl code
23# $dl_debug = $ENV{PERL_DL_DEBUG} || 0 unless defined $dl_debug;
24
25EOT
26
27print OUT '  my $dl_dlext = ', to_string($Config::Config{'dlext'}), ";\n" ;
28
29print OUT <<'EOT';
30
31package DynaLoader;
32
33# No prizes for guessing why we don't say 'bootstrap DynaLoader;' here.
34# NOTE: All dl_*.xs (including dl_none.xs) define a dl_error() XSUB
35boot_DynaLoader('DynaLoader') if defined(&boot_DynaLoader) &&
36                                !defined(&dl_error);
37package XSLoader;
38
39sub load {
40    package DynaLoader;
41
42    die q{XSLoader::load('Your::Module', $Your::Module::VERSION)} unless @_;
43
44    my($module) = $_[0];
45
46    # work with static linking too
47    my $boots = "$module\::bootstrap";
48    goto &$boots if defined &$boots;
49
50    goto retry unless $module and defined &dl_load_file;
51
52    my @modparts = split(/::/,$module);
53    my $modfname = $modparts[-1];
54
55EOT
56
57print OUT <<'EOT' if defined &DynaLoader::mod2fname;
58    # Some systems have restrictions on files names for DLL's etc.
59    # mod2fname returns appropriate file base name (typically truncated)
60    # It may also edit @modparts if required.
61    $modfname = &mod2fname(\@modparts) if defined &mod2fname;
62
63EOT
64
65print OUT <<'EOT' if $^O eq 'os2';
66
67    # os2 static build can dynaload, but cannot dynaload Perl modules...
68    die 'Dynaloaded Perl modules are not available in this build of Perl' if $OS2::is_static;
69
70EOT
71
72print OUT <<'EOT';
73    my $modpname = join('/',@modparts);
74    my $modlibname = (caller())[1];
75    my $c = @modparts;
76    $modlibname =~ s,[\\/][^\\/]+$,, while $c--;	# Q&D basename
77    my $file = "$modlibname/auto/$modpname/$modfname.$dl_dlext";
78
79#   print STDERR "XSLoader::load for $module ($file)\n" if $dl_debug;
80
81    my $bs = $file;
82    $bs =~ s/(\.\w+)?(;\d*)?$/\.bs/; # look for .bs 'beside' the library
83
84    if (-s $bs) { # only read file if it's not empty
85#       print STDERR "BS: $bs ($^O, $dlsrc)\n" if $dl_debug;
86        eval { do $bs; };
87        warn "$bs: $@\n" if $@;
88    }
89
90    goto retry if not -f $file or -s $bs;
91
92    my $bootname = "boot_$module";
93    $bootname =~ s/\W/_/g;
94    @DynaLoader::dl_require_symbols = ($bootname);
95
96    my $boot_symbol_ref;
97
98EOT
99
100    if ($^O eq 'darwin') {
101print OUT <<'EOT';
102        if ($boot_symbol_ref = dl_find_symbol(0, $bootname)) {
103            goto boot; #extension library has already been loaded, e.g. darwin
104        }
105EOT
106    }
107
108print OUT <<'EOT';
109    # Many dynamic extension loading problems will appear to come from
110    # this section of code: XYZ failed at line 123 of DynaLoader.pm.
111    # Often these errors are actually occurring in the initialisation
112    # C code of the extension XS file. Perl reports the error as being
113    # in this perl code simply because this was the last perl code
114    # it executed.
115
116    my $libref = dl_load_file($file, 0) or do {
117        require Carp;
118        Carp::croak("Can't load '$file' for module $module: " . dl_error());
119    };
120    push(@DynaLoader::dl_librefs,$libref);  # record loaded object
121
122    my @unresolved = dl_undef_symbols();
123    if (@unresolved) {
124        require Carp;
125        Carp::carp("Undefined symbols present after loading $file: @unresolved\n");
126    }
127
128    $boot_symbol_ref = dl_find_symbol($libref, $bootname) or do {
129        require Carp;
130        Carp::croak("Can't find '$bootname' symbol in $file\n");
131    };
132
133    push(@DynaLoader::dl_modules, $module); # record loaded module
134
135  boot:
136    my $xs = dl_install_xsub($boots, $boot_symbol_ref, $file);
137
138    # See comment block above
139    push(@DynaLoader::dl_shared_objects, $file); # record files loaded
140    return &$xs(@_);
141
142  retry:
143    my $bootstrap_inherit = DynaLoader->can('bootstrap_inherit') ||
144                            XSLoader->can('bootstrap_inherit');
145    goto &$bootstrap_inherit;
146}
147
148# Versions of DynaLoader prior to 5.6.0 don't have this function.
149sub bootstrap_inherit {
150    package DynaLoader;
151
152    my $module = $_[0];
153    local *DynaLoader::isa = *{"$module\::ISA"};
154    local @DynaLoader::isa = (@DynaLoader::isa, 'DynaLoader');
155    # Cannot goto due to delocalization.  Will report errors on a wrong line?
156    require DynaLoader;
157    DynaLoader::bootstrap(@_);
158}
159
1601;
161
162
163__END__
164
165=head1 NAME
166
167XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
168
169=head1 VERSION
170
171Version 0.10
172
173=head1 SYNOPSIS
174
175    package YourPackage;
176    use XSLoader;
177
178    XSLoader::load 'YourPackage', $YourPackage::VERSION;
179
180=head1 DESCRIPTION
181
182This module defines a standard I<simplified> interface to the dynamic
183linking mechanisms available on many platforms.  Its primary purpose is
184to implement cheap automatic dynamic loading of Perl modules.
185
186For a more complicated interface, see L<DynaLoader>.  Many (most)
187features of C<DynaLoader> are not implemented in C<XSLoader>, like for
188example the C<dl_load_flags>, not honored by C<XSLoader>.
189
190=head2 Migration from C<DynaLoader>
191
192A typical module using L<DynaLoader|DynaLoader> starts like this:
193
194    package YourPackage;
195    require DynaLoader;
196
197    our @ISA = qw( OnePackage OtherPackage DynaLoader );
198    our $VERSION = '0.01';
199    bootstrap YourPackage $VERSION;
200
201Change this to
202
203    package YourPackage;
204    use XSLoader;
205
206    our @ISA = qw( OnePackage OtherPackage );
207    our $VERSION = '0.01';
208    XSLoader::load 'YourPackage', $VERSION;
209
210In other words: replace C<require DynaLoader> by C<use XSLoader>, remove
211C<DynaLoader> from C<@ISA>, change C<bootstrap> by C<XSLoader::load>.  Do not
212forget to quote the name of your package on the C<XSLoader::load> line,
213and add comma (C<,>) before the arguments (C<$VERSION> above).
214
215Of course, if C<@ISA> contained only C<DynaLoader>, there is no need to have
216the C<@ISA> assignment at all; moreover, if instead of C<our> one uses the
217more backward-compatible
218
219    use vars qw($VERSION @ISA);
220
221one can remove this reference to C<@ISA> together with the C<@ISA> assignment.
222
223If no C<$VERSION> was specified on the C<bootstrap> line, the last line becomes
224
225    XSLoader::load 'YourPackage';
226
227=head2 Backward compatible boilerplate
228
229If you want to have your cake and eat it too, you need a more complicated
230boilerplate.
231
232    package YourPackage;
233    use vars qw($VERSION @ISA);
234
235    @ISA = qw( OnePackage OtherPackage );
236    $VERSION = '0.01';
237    eval {
238       require XSLoader;
239       XSLoader::load('YourPackage', $VERSION);
240       1;
241    } or do {
242       require DynaLoader;
243       push @ISA, 'DynaLoader';
244       bootstrap YourPackage $VERSION;
245    };
246
247The parentheses about C<XSLoader::load()> arguments are needed since we replaced
248C<use XSLoader> by C<require>, so the compiler does not know that a function
249C<XSLoader::load()> is present.
250
251This boilerplate uses the low-overhead C<XSLoader> if present; if used with
252an antic Perl which has no C<XSLoader>, it falls back to using C<DynaLoader>.
253
254=head1 Order of initialization: early load()
255
256I<Skip this section if the XSUB functions are supposed to be called from other
257modules only; read it only if you call your XSUBs from the code in your module,
258or have a C<BOOT:> section in your XS file (see L<perlxs/"The BOOT: Keyword">).
259What is described here is equally applicable to the L<DynaLoader|DynaLoader>
260interface.>
261
262A sufficiently complicated module using XS would have both Perl code (defined
263in F<YourPackage.pm>) and XS code (defined in F<YourPackage.xs>).  If this
264Perl code makes calls into this XS code, and/or this XS code makes calls to
265the Perl code, one should be careful with the order of initialization.
266
267The call to C<XSLoader::load()> (or C<bootstrap()>) has three side effects:
268
269=over
270
271=item *
272
273if C<$VERSION> was specified, a sanity check is done to ensure that the
274versions of the F<.pm> and the (compiled) F<.xs> parts are compatible;
275
276=item *
277
278the XSUBs are made accessible from Perl;
279
280=item *
281
282if a C<BOOT:> section was present in the F<.xs> file, the code there is called.
283
284=back
285
286Consequently, if the code in the F<.pm> file makes calls to these XSUBs, it is
287convenient to have XSUBs installed before the Perl code is defined; for
288example, this makes prototypes for XSUBs visible to this Perl code.
289Alternatively, if the C<BOOT:> section makes calls to Perl functions (or
290uses Perl variables) defined in the F<.pm> file, they must be defined prior to
291the call to C<XSLoader::load()> (or C<bootstrap()>).
292
293The first situation being much more frequent, it makes sense to rewrite the
294boilerplate as
295
296    package YourPackage;
297    use XSLoader;
298    use vars qw($VERSION @ISA);
299
300    BEGIN {
301       @ISA = qw( OnePackage OtherPackage );
302       $VERSION = '0.01';
303
304       # Put Perl code used in the BOOT: section here
305
306       XSLoader::load 'YourPackage', $VERSION;
307    }
308
309    # Put Perl code making calls into XSUBs here
310
311=head2 The most hairy case
312
313If the interdependence of your C<BOOT:> section and Perl code is
314more complicated than this (e.g., the C<BOOT:> section makes calls to Perl
315functions which make calls to XSUBs with prototypes), get rid of the C<BOOT:>
316section altogether.  Replace it with a function C<onBOOT()>, and call it like
317this:
318
319    package YourPackage;
320    use XSLoader;
321    use vars qw($VERSION @ISA);
322
323    BEGIN {
324       @ISA = qw( OnePackage OtherPackage );
325       $VERSION = '0.01';
326       XSLoader::load 'YourPackage', $VERSION;
327    }
328
329    # Put Perl code used in onBOOT() function here; calls to XSUBs are
330    # prototype-checked.
331
332    onBOOT;
333
334    # Put Perl initialization code assuming that XS is initialized here
335
336
337=head1 DIAGNOSTICS
338
339=over
340
341=item C<Can't find '%s' symbol in %s>
342
343B<(F)> The bootstrap symbol could not be found in the extension module.
344
345=item C<Can't load '%s' for module %s: %s>
346
347B<(F)> The loading or initialisation of the extension module failed.
348The detailed error follows.
349
350=item C<Undefined symbols present after loading %s: %s>
351
352B<(W)> As the message says, some symbols stay undefined although the
353extension module was correctly loaded and initialised. The list of undefined
354symbols follows.
355
356=item C<XSLoader::load('Your::Module', $Your::Module::VERSION)>
357
358B<(F)> You tried to invoke C<load()> without any argument. You must supply
359a module name, and optionally its version.
360
361=back
362
363
364=head1 LIMITATIONS
365
366To reduce the overhead as much as possible, only one possible location
367is checked to find the extension DLL (this location is where C<make install>
368would put the DLL).  If not found, the search for the DLL is transparently
369delegated to C<DynaLoader>, which looks for the DLL along the C<@INC> list.
370
371In particular, this is applicable to the structure of C<@INC> used for testing
372not-yet-installed extensions.  This means that running uninstalled extensions
373may have much more overhead than running the same extensions after
374C<make install>.
375
376
377=head1 BUGS
378
379Please report any bugs or feature requests via the perlbug(1) utility.
380
381
382=head1 SEE ALSO
383
384L<DynaLoader>
385
386
387=head1 AUTHORS
388
389Ilya Zakharevich originally extracted C<XSLoader> from C<DynaLoader>.
390
391CPAN version is currently maintained by SE<eacute>bastien Aperghis-Tramoni
392E<lt>sebastien@aperghis.netE<gt>.
393
394Previous maintainer was Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>.
395
396
397=head1 COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
398
399Copyright (C) 1990-2007 by Larry Wall and others.
400
401This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
402it under the same terms as Perl itself.
403
404=cut
405EOT
406
407close OUT or die $!;
408