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1 # Generated from XSLoader.pm.PL (resolved %Config::Config value)
3 package XSLoader;
5 $VERSION = "0.06";
7 #use strict;
9 # enable debug/trace messages from DynaLoader perl code
10 # $dl_debug = $ENV{PERL_DL_DEBUG} || 0 unless defined $dl_debug;
12 my $dl_dlext = 'dll';
14 package DynaLoader;
16 # No prizes for guessing why we don't say 'bootstrap DynaLoader;' here.
17 # NOTE: All dl_*.xs (including dl_none.xs) define a dl_error() XSUB
18 boot_DynaLoader('DynaLoader') if defined(&boot_DynaLoader) &&
19 !defined(&dl_error);
20 package XSLoader;
22 sub load {
23 package DynaLoader;
25 die q{XSLoader::load('Your::Module', $Your::Module::VERSION)} unless @_;
27 my($module) = $_[0];
29 # work with static linking too
30 my $b = "$module\::bootstrap";
31 goto &$b if defined &$b;
33 goto retry unless $module and defined &dl_load_file;
35 my @modparts = split(/::/,$module);
36 my $modfname = $modparts[-1];
38 my $modpname = join('/',@modparts);
39 my $modlibname = (caller())[1];
40 my $c = @modparts;
41 $modlibname =~ s,[\\/][^\\/]+$,, while $c--; # Q&D basename
42 my $file = "$modlibname/auto/$modpname/$modfname.$dl_dlext";
44 # print STDERR "XSLoader::load for $module ($file)\n" if $dl_debug;
46 my $bs = $file;
47 $bs =~ s/(\.\w+)?(;\d*)?$/\.bs/; # look for .bs 'beside' the library
49 goto retry if not -f $file or -s $bs;
51 my $bootname = "boot_$module";
52 $bootname =~ s/\W/_/g;
53 @DynaLoader::dl_require_symbols = ($bootname);
55 my $boot_symbol_ref;
57 if ($^O eq 'darwin') {
58 if ($boot_symbol_ref = dl_find_symbol(0, $bootname)) {
59 goto boot; #extension library has already been loaded, e.g. darwin
63 # Many dynamic extension loading problems will appear to come from
64 # this section of code: XYZ failed at line 123 of DynaLoader.pm.
65 # Often these errors are actually occurring in the initialisation
66 # C code of the extension XS file. Perl reports the error as being
67 # in this perl code simply because this was the last perl code
68 # it executed.
70 my $libref = dl_load_file($file, 0) or do {
71 require Carp;
72 Carp::croak("Can't load '$file' for module $module: " . dl_error());
74 push(@DynaLoader::dl_librefs,$libref); # record loaded object
76 my @unresolved = dl_undef_symbols();
77 if (@unresolved) {
78 require Carp;
79 Carp::carp("Undefined symbols present after loading $file: @unresolved\n");
82 $boot_symbol_ref = dl_find_symbol($libref, $bootname) or do {
83 require Carp;
84 Carp::croak("Can't find '$bootname' symbol in $file\n");
87 push(@DynaLoader::dl_modules, $module); # record loaded module
89 boot:
90 my $xs = dl_install_xsub("${module}::bootstrap", $boot_symbol_ref, $file);
92 # See comment block above
93 push(@DynaLoader::dl_shared_objects, $file); # record files loaded
94 return &$xs(@_);
96 retry:
97 my $bootstrap_inherit = DynaLoader->can('bootstrap_inherit') ||
98 XSLoader->can('bootstrap_inherit');
99 goto &$bootstrap_inherit;
102 # Versions of DynaLoader prior to 5.6.0 don't have this function.
103 sub bootstrap_inherit {
104 package DynaLoader;
106 my $module = $_[0];
107 local *DynaLoader::isa = *{"$module\::ISA"};
108 local @DynaLoader::isa = (@DynaLoader::isa, 'DynaLoader');
109 # Cannot goto due to delocalization. Will report errors on a wrong line?
110 require DynaLoader;
111 DynaLoader::bootstrap(@_);
117 __END__
119 =head1 NAME
121 XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
123 =head1 VERSION
125 Version 0.06
127 =head1 SYNOPSIS
129 package YourPackage;
130 use XSLoader;
132 XSLoader::load 'YourPackage', $YourPackage::VERSION;
134 =head1 DESCRIPTION
136 This module defines a standard I<simplified> interface to the dynamic
137 linking mechanisms available on many platforms. Its primary purpose is
138 to implement cheap automatic dynamic loading of Perl modules.
140 For a more complicated interface, see L<DynaLoader>. Many (most)
141 features of C<DynaLoader> are not implemented in C<XSLoader>, like for
142 example the C<dl_load_flags>, not honored by C<XSLoader>.
144 =head2 Migration from C<DynaLoader>
146 A typical module using L<DynaLoader|DynaLoader> starts like this:
148 package YourPackage;
149 require DynaLoader;
151 our @ISA = qw( OnePackage OtherPackage DynaLoader );
152 our $VERSION = '0.01';
153 bootstrap YourPackage $VERSION;
155 Change this to
157 package YourPackage;
158 use XSLoader;
160 our @ISA = qw( OnePackage OtherPackage );
161 our $VERSION = '0.01';
162 XSLoader::load 'YourPackage', $VERSION;
164 In other words: replace C<require DynaLoader> by C<use XSLoader>, remove
165 C<DynaLoader> from C<@ISA>, change C<bootstrap> by C<XSLoader::load>. Do not
166 forget to quote the name of your package on the C<XSLoader::load> line,
167 and add comma (C<,>) before the arguments (C<$VERSION> above).
169 Of course, if C<@ISA> contained only C<DynaLoader>, there is no need to have
170 the C<@ISA> assignment at all; moreover, if instead of C<our> one uses the
171 more backward-compatible
173 use vars qw($VERSION @ISA);
175 one can remove this reference to C<@ISA> together with the C<@ISA> assignment.
177 If no C<$VERSION> was specified on the C<bootstrap> line, the last line becomes
179 XSLoader::load 'YourPackage';
181 =head2 Backward compatible boilerplate
183 If you want to have your cake and eat it too, you need a more complicated
184 boilerplate.
186 package YourPackage;
187 use vars qw($VERSION @ISA);
189 @ISA = qw( OnePackage OtherPackage );
190 $VERSION = '0.01';
191 eval {
192 require XSLoader;
193 XSLoader::load('YourPackage', $VERSION);
195 } or do {
196 require DynaLoader;
197 push @ISA, 'DynaLoader';
198 bootstrap YourPackage $VERSION;
201 The parentheses about C<XSLoader::load()> arguments are needed since we replaced
202 C<use XSLoader> by C<require>, so the compiler does not know that a function
203 C<XSLoader::load()> is present.
205 This boilerplate uses the low-overhead C<XSLoader> if present; if used with
206 an antic Perl which has no C<XSLoader>, it falls back to using C<DynaLoader>.
208 =head1 Order of initialization: early load()
210 I<Skip this section if the XSUB functions are supposed to be called from other
211 modules only; read it only if you call your XSUBs from the code in your module,
212 or have a C<BOOT:> section in your XS file (see L<perlxs/"The BOOT: Keyword">).
213 What is described here is equally applicable to the L<DynaLoader|DynaLoader>
214 interface.>
216 A sufficiently complicated module using XS would have both Perl code (defined
217 in F<YourPackage.pm>) and XS code (defined in F<YourPackage.xs>). If this
218 Perl code makes calls into this XS code, and/or this XS code makes calls to
219 the Perl code, one should be careful with the order of initialization.
221 The call to C<XSLoader::load()> (or C<bootstrap()>) has three side effects:
223 =over
225 =item *
227 if C<$VERSION> was specified, a sanity check is done to ensure that the
228 versions of the F<.pm> and the (compiled) F<.xs> parts are compatible;
230 =item *
232 the XSUBs are made accessible from Perl;
234 =item *
236 if a C<BOOT:> section was present in the F<.xs> file, the code there is called.
238 =back
240 Consequently, if the code in the F<.pm> file makes calls to these XSUBs, it is
241 convenient to have XSUBs installed before the Perl code is defined; for
242 example, this makes prototypes for XSUBs visible to this Perl code.
243 Alternatively, if the C<BOOT:> section makes calls to Perl functions (or
244 uses Perl variables) defined in the F<.pm> file, they must be defined prior to
245 the call to C<XSLoader::load()> (or C<bootstrap()>).
247 The first situation being much more frequent, it makes sense to rewrite the
248 boilerplate as
250 package YourPackage;
251 use XSLoader;
252 use vars qw($VERSION @ISA);
254 BEGIN {
255 @ISA = qw( OnePackage OtherPackage );
256 $VERSION = '0.01';
258 # Put Perl code used in the BOOT: section here
260 XSLoader::load 'YourPackage', $VERSION;
263 # Put Perl code making calls into XSUBs here
265 =head2 The most hairy case
267 If the interdependence of your C<BOOT:> section and Perl code is
268 more complicated than this (e.g., the C<BOOT:> section makes calls to Perl
269 functions which make calls to XSUBs with prototypes), get rid of the C<BOOT:>
270 section altogether. Replace it with a function C<onBOOT()>, and call it like
271 this:
273 package YourPackage;
274 use XSLoader;
275 use vars qw($VERSION @ISA);
277 BEGIN {
278 @ISA = qw( OnePackage OtherPackage );
279 $VERSION = '0.01';
280 XSLoader::load 'YourPackage', $VERSION;
283 # Put Perl code used in onBOOT() function here; calls to XSUBs are
284 # prototype-checked.
286 onBOOT;
288 # Put Perl initialization code assuming that XS is initialized here
291 =head1 DIAGNOSTICS
293 =over 4
295 =item Can't find '%s' symbol in %s
297 B<(F)> The bootstrap symbol could not be found in the extension module.
299 =item Can't load '%s' for module %s: %s
301 B<(F)> The loading or initialisation of the extension module failed.
302 The detailed error follows.
304 =item Undefined symbols present after loading %s: %s
306 B<(W)> As the message says, some symbols stay undefined although the
307 extension module was correctly loaded and initialised. The list of undefined
308 symbols follows.
310 =item XSLoader::load('Your::Module', $Your::Module::VERSION)
312 B<(F)> You tried to invoke C<load()> without any argument. You must supply
313 a module name, and optionally its version.
315 =back
318 =head1 LIMITATIONS
320 To reduce the overhead as much as possible, only one possible location
321 is checked to find the extension DLL (this location is where C<make install>
322 would put the DLL). If not found, the search for the DLL is transparently
323 delegated to C<DynaLoader>, which looks for the DLL along the C<@INC> list.
325 In particular, this is applicable to the structure of C<@INC> used for testing
326 not-yet-installed extensions. This means that running uninstalled extensions
327 may have much more overhead than running the same extensions after
328 C<make install>.
331 =head1 BUGS
333 Please report any bugs or feature requests via the perlbug(1) utility.
336 =head1 SEE ALSO
338 L<DynaLoader>
341 =head1 AUTHORS
343 Ilya Zakharevich originally extracted C<XSLoader> from C<DynaLoader>.
345 CPAN version is currently maintained by SE<eacute>bastien Aperghis-Tramoni
346 E<lt>sebastien@aperghis.netE<gt>
348 Previous maintainer was Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>
351 =head1 COPYRIGHT
353 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
354 it under the same terms as Perl itself.
356 =cut