README.md

Conf-Libconfig

Perl bindings to the C library libconfig

INSTALLATION

• First install libconfig and its development files.

  • RHEL(<8) or Centos(<8) :

    yum install libconfig libconfig-devel -y
    

  • RHEL(>=8) or Centos(>=8) :

    dnf install libconfig libconfig-devel -y
    

  • Debian or Ubuntu:

    apt-get libconfig libconfig-dev -y
    

  • openSUSE:

    # available in the Packman repository
    zypper install libconfig8 libconfig-devel
    

• On other platforms, you can compile libconfig from source: http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/

Instructions:

• Install libconfig from source:

  wget http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/libconfig-1.3.2.tar.gz
  # Support libconfig-1.4.x
  # wget http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/libconfig-1.4.7.tar.gz
  # Support libconfig-1.7.x
  # wget https://hyperrealm.github.io/libconfig/dist/libconfig-1.7.2.tar.gz
  tar -zxf libconfig-1.3.2.tar.gz
  cd libconfig-1.3.2
  export MYPREFIX=/usr
  # or if you lack privileges for making system-wide changes:
  # export MYPREFIX=$HOME/local
  ./configure --prefix=$MYPREFIX
  make
  make install
  

• To install this module, run the following commands:

  perl Makefile.PL
  # or if you use a self-compiled libconfig as above:
  # perl Makefile.PL LIBS=-L$MYPREFIX/lib INC=-I$MYPREFIX/include
  make
  # If not using en_US system, you must set export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
  make test
  make install
  

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

• After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Conf::Libconfig

• You can also look for information at:

  • RT, CPAN's request tracker

    • http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Conf-Libconfig

  • AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation

    • http://annocpan.org/dist/Conf-Libconfig

  • CPAN Ratings

    • http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Conf-Libconfig

  • Search CPAN

    • http://search.cpan.org/dist/Conf-Libconfig/

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

• Copyright (c) 2009, Alibaba Search Center, Alibaba Inc. All rights reserved.

• Copyright (C) 2009-2023 cnangel

• This program is released under the following license: bsd