ExtUti...ompiler(3pm)

🌸 NAME 🌸

Okay so welcome bestie, you're in the 3pm section of the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and this little icon is ExtUtils::Builder::Compiler — An interface around different compilers. 🎀

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✨ VERSION ✨

version 0.037 — that's the one, that's the whole version, no cap. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So basically this is an interface wrapping around different compilers. It's giving middleman, and honestly that's the point. 🫶

It's usually not used directly — instead a portability layer like ExtUtils::Builder::Autodetect::C handles it for you. So like, you can talk to it yourself, but the whole vibe is that something else is doing the talking. iykyk 💜

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👑 METHODS 👑

🌈 add_include_dirs($dirs, %options) 🌈

Add dirs to the include list. You hand it your directories, they land in the include list, done and dusted. ✨

There's also a %options hash if you're feeling extra. 🍓

💖 add_defines($defines, %options) 💖

Add defines to the define list — and heads up, the defines come in as a hash. 🔥

And yep, %options is there too, same energy. 🌸

💜 compile($source, $target, %options) 💜

Compile a $source to $destination. That's it. That's the method. It compiles things. 🦋

And once again, %options is riding along for the journey. 🧚

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⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> — the actual legend behind this, giving main character energy so the rest of us don't have to. 👑

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🎀 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🎀

This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Leon Timmermans.

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

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And that's a wrap, bestie! 🫶 This lil page came to you via perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-06-12 — so go forth, wrap those compilers, and slay. 💅✨🌈