ExtUti...eMaker(3pm)

omg hi bestie 👋 this is the ExtUtils::Builder::MakeMaker(3pm) page — the header lowkey shows the truncated ExtUti...eMaker(3pm) — and it's from User Contributed Perl Documentation. It's literally a MakeMaker consumer for ExtUtils::Builder Plan objects, and we're gonna vibe through it together 💖 vibe check: passed.

🌸 NAME

ExtUtils::Builder::MakeMaker — a MakeMaker consumer for ExtUtils::Builder Plan objects. No cap, that's the whole name section.

🎀 VERSION

version 0.020 ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS

  use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
  use ExtUtils::Builder::MakeMaker;
  ...
  WriteMakeFile(
    NAME => 'Foo',
    VERSION => 0.001,
  );

  sub MY::make_plans {
    my ($self, $planner) = @_;
    $planner->load_extension('Some::Module');
    ... # Add plans to $planner
  }

💅 DESCRIPTION

okay so this MakeMaker extension will call any .pl files in /planner as DSL files. They run in a new scope so delegates don't leak out — iconic — and those entries will be added to your Makefile. The way that this keeps your build setup from getting messy is honestly a slay.

It will also call your MY::make_plans method with a ExtUtils::Builder::Planner as argument, so you can customize the build in the Makefile.PL itself. Typically one would make their target a dependency of a MakeMaker entry like code (for perl) or dynamic (for XS). That's the whole flow, fr fr.

🦋 DELEGATES

This will define all delegates of ExtUtils::Builder::CPAN::Tool in your planner:

• meta — a CPAN::Meta object representing the META.json file.
• distribution — the name of the distribution.
• version — the version of the distribution.
• main_module — the main module of the distribution.
• perl_path — the path to the perl executable.
• config — the ExtUtils::Config::MakeMaker object for this build.
• is_os(@os_names) — returns true if the current operating system matches any of the listed ones.
• is_os_type($os_type) — returns true if the type of the OS matches $os_type. Legal values are Unix, Windows and VMS.
• verbose — always false.
• uninst — the value of the uninst command line argument.
• jobs — always 1.
• pureperl_only — the value of the PUREPERL_ONLY command line argument.

These are the same ones as Dist::Build sets except install_paths is missing. That's the one lil difference, iykyk 💅

👑 AUTHOR

Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> — the main character who wrote this ✨

💖 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 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. Periodt.

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okay bestie, that's the whole page 💖 source/version: perl v5.40.1 — date: 2026-02-23 — footer title: ExtUti...eMaker(3pm). bye and go slay your build 💅✨