Support to Build::Modules

[teixeiras]

Hi!
I have several modules, in this io::async module required for my project, but it uses Build::Modules system to build.
My first try is compiling Build::Modules to support this, but Build::Modules uses XS modules from perl so it fails compiling.

Attempt to reload Scalar/Util.pm aborted.
Compilation failed in require at /home/kiepe/kiepe/bsp/platform-x86_64/build-target/perl-5.38.0/lib/Data/Dumper.pm line %.

So, I did try to built all static, it failed compiling

With --mode=cross
--prefix=/usr
--host=$(PTXCONF_GNU_TARGET)
--target=$(PTXCONF_GNU_TARGET)
-Dld=$(CROSS_CC)
-Dldflags=-static -Accflags=-fno-pie
--all-static
-Dusethreads

./miniperl_top statars B Devel::Peek Fcntl File::DosGlob File::Glob Hash::Util Hash::Util::FieldHash I18N::Langinfo Opcode POSIX PerlIO::encoding PerlIO::mmap PerlIO::scalar PerlIO::via SDBM_File Sys::Hostname XS::APItest XS::Typemap attributes mro re Compress::Raw::Bzip2 Compress::Raw::Zlib DB_File Digest::MD5 Digest::SHA Encode Filter::Util::Call IPC::SysV MIME::Base64 Math::BigInt::FastCalc List::Util Socket Sys::Syslog Time::Piece Unicode::Collate Data::Dumper Devel::PPPort IO Cwd Storable Time::HiRes Unicode::Normalize threads threads::shared > static.list
Can't find .a file for B

Did anyone had success to support Build::Modules since many projects are now using it, or am I looking for the wrong path? (It's strange no related issue raised until now, neither any topic on this in google).

[arsv]

IO::Async has both Build.PL (Build::Module) and Makefile.PL (MakeMaker) and it seems to build just fine for me using the MakeMaker path. If you're not sure what to do, unpack IO::Async under ./cpan (so that you'd have ./cpan/IO-Async/Makefile.PL etc), then run configure and make. Build-time XS dependencies can be stubbed, check cnf/stub/ for a few examples, but proper support for Module::Build would likely require a lot more work than that.