Packaging a Perl (CPAM) package

Packaging a Perl package is similar to packaging a Python package!

Building a Perl Package

A perl noarch: generic package

The following recipe is for the Perl package Call::Context. We use perl in the host requirements, and install the package using make. The noarch: generic is used to indicate that the package is architecture-independent - since this is a pure Perl package, it can be installed and run on any platform (noarch).

recipe.yaml

context:
  version: 0.03

package:
  name: perl-call-context
  version: ${{ version }}

source:
  url: https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/F/FE/FELIPE/Call-Context-${{ version }}.tar.gz
  sha256: 0ee6bf46bc72755adb7a6b08e79d12e207de5f7809707b3c353b58cb2f0b5a26

build:
  number: 0
  noarch: generic
  script:
    - perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor NO_PERLLOCAL=1 NO_PACKLIST=1
    - make
    - make test
    - make install

requirements:
  build:
    - make
  host:
    - perl

tests:
  - perl:
      uses:
        - Call::Context

about:
  license: GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl
  summary: Sanity-check calling context
  homepage: http://metacpan.org/pod/Call-Context

A perl package with a C extension

Some perl packages have native code extensions. In this example, we will build a package for the Perl package Data::Dumper using the C compiler. The c compiler and make are required at build time in the build requirements to compile the native code extension. We use perl in the host requirements, and install the package using make.

recipe.yaml

context:
  version: "2.183"

package:
  name: "perl-data-dumper"
  version: ${{ version }}

source:
  url: https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/Data-Dumper-${{ version }}.tar.gz
  sha256: e42736890b7dae1b37818d9c5efa1f1fdc52dec04f446a33a4819bf1d4ab5ad3

build:
  number: 0
  script:
    - perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor NO_PERLLOCAL=1 NO_PACKLIST=1
    - make
    - make test
    - make install VERBINST=1

requirements:
  build:
    - ${{ compiler('c') }}
    - make
  host:
    - perl
    - perl-extutils-makemaker

tests:
  - perl:
      uses:
        - Data::Dumper

about:
  homepage: https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::Dumper
  license: GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl
  summary: 'seeds germane, yet not germinated'