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LibraryCheck cpan:JSTOWE last updated on 2019-11-05

LibraryCheck-0.0.9/

LibraryCheck

Determine whether a shared library is available to be loaded by Raku

Synopsis

use LibraryCheck;

if !library-exists('sndfile', v1) {
    die "Cannot load sndfile";
}

Description

This module provides a mechanism that will determine whether a named shared library is available and can be used by NativeCall.

It exports a single function 'library-exists' that returns a boolean to indicate whether the named shared library can be loaded and used.

This can be used in a builder to determine whether a module has a chance of working (and possibly aborting the build,) or in tests to cause the tests that may rely on a shared library to be skipped, but other use-cases are possible.

 use LibraryCheck;

 if !library-exists('sndfile', v1) {
     die "Cannot load sndfile";
 }

The case above can be more simply written as:

 library-check('sndfile',v1, :exception);

Which will throw an X::NoLibrary exception rather than return False.

The implementation is somewhat of a hack currently and definitely shouldn't be taken as an example of nice Raku code.

Installation

Assuming you have a working Rakudo installation you should be able to install this with zef :

# From the source directory

zef install .

# Remote installation

zef install LibraryCheck

Other install mechanisms may be become available in the future.

Support

Suggestions/patches are welcomed via github at https://github.com/jonathanstowe/LibraryCheck/issues

I'd be particularly interested in having it work properly on all the platforms that rakudo will work on.

Licence

Please see the LICENCEi file in the distribution