source: trunk/essentials/dev-lang/perl/ext/DynaLoader/XSLoader_pm.PL

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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 = "0.06";
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 $b = "$module\::bootstrap";
48 goto &$b if defined &$b;
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';
66 my $modpname = join('/',@modparts);
67 my $modlibname = (caller())[1];
68 my $c = @modparts;
69 $modlibname =~ s,[\\/][^\\/]+$,, while $c--; # Q&D basename
70 my $file = "$modlibname/auto/$modpname/$modfname.$dl_dlext";
71
72# print STDERR "XSLoader::load for $module ($file)\n" if $dl_debug;
73
74 my $bs = $file;
75 $bs =~ s/(\.\w+)?(;\d*)?$/\.bs/; # look for .bs 'beside' the library
76
77 goto retry if not -f $file or -s $bs;
78
79 my $bootname = "boot_$module";
80 $bootname =~ s/\W/_/g;
81 @DynaLoader::dl_require_symbols = ($bootname);
82
83 my $boot_symbol_ref;
84
85 if ($^O eq 'darwin') {
86 if ($boot_symbol_ref = dl_find_symbol(0, $bootname)) {
87 goto boot; #extension library has already been loaded, e.g. darwin
88 }
89 }
90
91 # Many dynamic extension loading problems will appear to come from
92 # this section of code: XYZ failed at line 123 of DynaLoader.pm.
93 # Often these errors are actually occurring in the initialisation
94 # C code of the extension XS file. Perl reports the error as being
95 # in this perl code simply because this was the last perl code
96 # it executed.
97
98 my $libref = dl_load_file($file, 0) or do {
99 require Carp;
100 Carp::croak("Can't load '$file' for module $module: " . dl_error());
101 };
102 push(@DynaLoader::dl_librefs,$libref); # record loaded object
103
104 my @unresolved = dl_undef_symbols();
105 if (@unresolved) {
106 require Carp;
107 Carp::carp("Undefined symbols present after loading $file: @unresolved\n");
108 }
109
110 $boot_symbol_ref = dl_find_symbol($libref, $bootname) or do {
111 require Carp;
112 Carp::croak("Can't find '$bootname' symbol in $file\n");
113 };
114
115 push(@DynaLoader::dl_modules, $module); # record loaded module
116
117 boot:
118 my $xs = dl_install_xsub("${module}::bootstrap", $boot_symbol_ref, $file);
119
120 # See comment block above
121 push(@DynaLoader::dl_shared_objects, $file); # record files loaded
122 return &$xs(@_);
123
124 retry:
125 my $bootstrap_inherit = DynaLoader->can('bootstrap_inherit') ||
126 XSLoader->can('bootstrap_inherit');
127 goto &$bootstrap_inherit;
128}
129
130# Versions of DynaLoader prior to 5.6.0 don't have this function.
131sub bootstrap_inherit {
132 package DynaLoader;
133
134 my $module = $_[0];
135 local *DynaLoader::isa = *{"$module\::ISA"};
136 local @DynaLoader::isa = (@DynaLoader::isa, 'DynaLoader');
137 # Cannot goto due to delocalization. Will report errors on a wrong line?
138 require DynaLoader;
139 DynaLoader::bootstrap(@_);
140}
141
1421;
143
144
145__END__
146
147=head1 NAME
148
149XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
150
151=head1 VERSION
152
153Version 0.06
154
155=head1 SYNOPSIS
156
157 package YourPackage;
158 use XSLoader;
159
160 XSLoader::load 'YourPackage', $YourPackage::VERSION;
161
162=head1 DESCRIPTION
163
164This module defines a standard I<simplified> interface to the dynamic
165linking mechanisms available on many platforms. Its primary purpose is
166to implement cheap automatic dynamic loading of Perl modules.
167
168For a more complicated interface, see L<DynaLoader>. Many (most)
169features of C<DynaLoader> are not implemented in C<XSLoader>, like for
170example the C<dl_load_flags>, not honored by C<XSLoader>.
171
172=head2 Migration from C<DynaLoader>
173
174A typical module using L<DynaLoader|DynaLoader> starts like this:
175
176 package YourPackage;
177 require DynaLoader;
178
179 our @ISA = qw( OnePackage OtherPackage DynaLoader );
180 our $VERSION = '0.01';
181 bootstrap YourPackage $VERSION;
182
183Change this to
184
185 package YourPackage;
186 use XSLoader;
187
188 our @ISA = qw( OnePackage OtherPackage );
189 our $VERSION = '0.01';
190 XSLoader::load 'YourPackage', $VERSION;
191
192In other words: replace C<require DynaLoader> by C<use XSLoader>, remove
193C<DynaLoader> from C<@ISA>, change C<bootstrap> by C<XSLoader::load>. Do not
194forget to quote the name of your package on the C<XSLoader::load> line,
195and add comma (C<,>) before the arguments (C<$VERSION> above).
196
197Of course, if C<@ISA> contained only C<DynaLoader>, there is no need to have
198the C<@ISA> assignment at all; moreover, if instead of C<our> one uses the
199more backward-compatible
200
201 use vars qw($VERSION @ISA);
202
203one can remove this reference to C<@ISA> together with the C<@ISA> assignment.
204
205If no C<$VERSION> was specified on the C<bootstrap> line, the last line becomes
206
207 XSLoader::load 'YourPackage';
208
209=head2 Backward compatible boilerplate
210
211If you want to have your cake and eat it too, you need a more complicated
212boilerplate.
213
214 package YourPackage;
215 use vars qw($VERSION @ISA);
216
217 @ISA = qw( OnePackage OtherPackage );
218 $VERSION = '0.01';
219 eval {
220 require XSLoader;
221 XSLoader::load('YourPackage', $VERSION);
222 1;
223 } or do {
224 require DynaLoader;
225 push @ISA, 'DynaLoader';
226 bootstrap YourPackage $VERSION;
227 };
228
229The parentheses about C<XSLoader::load()> arguments are needed since we replaced
230C<use XSLoader> by C<require>, so the compiler does not know that a function
231C<XSLoader::load()> is present.
232
233This boilerplate uses the low-overhead C<XSLoader> if present; if used with
234an antic Perl which has no C<XSLoader>, it falls back to using C<DynaLoader>.
235
236=head1 Order of initialization: early load()
237
238I<Skip this section if the XSUB functions are supposed to be called from other
239modules only; read it only if you call your XSUBs from the code in your module,
240or have a C<BOOT:> section in your XS file (see L<perlxs/"The BOOT: Keyword">).
241What is described here is equally applicable to the L<DynaLoader|DynaLoader>
242interface.>
243
244A sufficiently complicated module using XS would have both Perl code (defined
245in F<YourPackage.pm>) and XS code (defined in F<YourPackage.xs>). If this
246Perl code makes calls into this XS code, and/or this XS code makes calls to
247the Perl code, one should be careful with the order of initialization.
248
249The call to C<XSLoader::load()> (or C<bootstrap()>) has three side effects:
250
251=over
252
253=item *
254
255if C<$VERSION> was specified, a sanity check is done to ensure that the
256versions of the F<.pm> and the (compiled) F<.xs> parts are compatible;
257
258=item *
259
260the XSUBs are made accessible from Perl;
261
262=item *
263
264if a C<BOOT:> section was present in the F<.xs> file, the code there is called.
265
266=back
267
268Consequently, if the code in the F<.pm> file makes calls to these XSUBs, it is
269convenient to have XSUBs installed before the Perl code is defined; for
270example, this makes prototypes for XSUBs visible to this Perl code.
271Alternatively, if the C<BOOT:> section makes calls to Perl functions (or
272uses Perl variables) defined in the F<.pm> file, they must be defined prior to
273the call to C<XSLoader::load()> (or C<bootstrap()>).
274
275The first situation being much more frequent, it makes sense to rewrite the
276boilerplate as
277
278 package YourPackage;
279 use XSLoader;
280 use vars qw($VERSION @ISA);
281
282 BEGIN {
283 @ISA = qw( OnePackage OtherPackage );
284 $VERSION = '0.01';
285
286 # Put Perl code used in the BOOT: section here
287
288 XSLoader::load 'YourPackage', $VERSION;
289 }
290
291 # Put Perl code making calls into XSUBs here
292
293=head2 The most hairy case
294
295If the interdependence of your C<BOOT:> section and Perl code is
296more complicated than this (e.g., the C<BOOT:> section makes calls to Perl
297functions which make calls to XSUBs with prototypes), get rid of the C<BOOT:>
298section altogether. Replace it with a function C<onBOOT()>, and call it like
299this:
300
301 package YourPackage;
302 use XSLoader;
303 use vars qw($VERSION @ISA);
304
305 BEGIN {
306 @ISA = qw( OnePackage OtherPackage );
307 $VERSION = '0.01';
308 XSLoader::load 'YourPackage', $VERSION;
309 }
310
311 # Put Perl code used in onBOOT() function here; calls to XSUBs are
312 # prototype-checked.
313
314 onBOOT;
315
316 # Put Perl initialization code assuming that XS is initialized here
317
318
319=head1 DIAGNOSTICS
320
321=over 4
322
323=item Can't find '%s' symbol in %s
324
325B<(F)> The bootstrap symbol could not be found in the extension module.
326
327=item Can't load '%s' for module %s: %s
328
329B<(F)> The loading or initialisation of the extension module failed.
330The detailed error follows.
331
332=item Undefined symbols present after loading %s: %s
333
334B<(W)> As the message says, some symbols stay undefined although the
335extension module was correctly loaded and initialised. The list of undefined
336symbols follows.
337
338=item XSLoader::load('Your::Module', $Your::Module::VERSION)
339
340B<(F)> You tried to invoke C<load()> without any argument. You must supply
341a module name, and optionally its version.
342
343=back
344
345
346=head1 LIMITATIONS
347
348To reduce the overhead as much as possible, only one possible location
349is checked to find the extension DLL (this location is where C<make install>
350would put the DLL). If not found, the search for the DLL is transparently
351delegated to C<DynaLoader>, which looks for the DLL along the C<@INC> list.
352
353In particular, this is applicable to the structure of C<@INC> used for testing
354not-yet-installed extensions. This means that running uninstalled extensions
355may have much more overhead than running the same extensions after
356C<make install>.
357
358
359=head1 BUGS
360
361Please report any bugs or feature requests via the perlbug(1) utility.
362
363
364=head1 SEE ALSO
365
366L<DynaLoader>
367
368
369=head1 AUTHORS
370
371Ilya Zakharevich originally extracted C<XSLoader> from C<DynaLoader>.
372
373CPAN version is currently maintained by SE<eacute>bastien Aperghis-Tramoni
374E<lt>[email protected]<gt>
375
376Previous maintainer was Michael G Schwern <[email protected]>
377
378
379=head1 COPYRIGHT
380
381This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
382it under the same terms as Perl itself.
383
384=cut
385EOT
386
387close OUT or die $!;
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