perlalien/alien-unzip

Find or build Info-ZIP unzip

Alien::unzip

Find or build Info-ZIP unzip

SYNOPSIS

use Alien::unzip
use Env qw( @PATH );

# Add unzip to the PATH if it isn't there already
push @PATH, Alien::unzip->bin_dir;

DESCRIPTION

This is an alien that provides Info-ZIP unzip. It is useful for building other aliens in share mode. Another option is to use Archive::Zip, but that module seems to be quite unreliable in practice.

SEE ALSO

• Alien
• Alien::Build

AUTHOR

Graham Ollis [email protected]

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2019 by Graham Ollis.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

alien-unzip's Issues

Support for NetBSD unzip

NetBSD comes with its own non-InfoZIP unzip. It may be the same implementation, but it doesn't respond to -v to get the version. It might be worth investigating if Alien::unzip and AB core could be made to use it.

Download binaries for Windows

Share build seems to fail on Windows (#5). The InfoZip project seems to be pretty dormant. MSYS2 has patches to build unzip, but they are for the msys environment not the mingw environment that Strawberry uses. We should download binaries. There is a 64 bit Intel binary provided by MSYS2 here: that would probably work. Uncertain if there is a 32bit binary as well.