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Chapter 5 - Programs Embedding Perl

5.1 Building Embedded Programs

Programs which embed a perl interpreter must declare a Build-Depends on libperl-dev.

The default linker options produced by

     perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts

will link against the dynamic libperl. If programs wish to link to the static library, then -lperl should be changed to /usr/lib/libperl.a in those options.

5.2 Embedded Perl Dependencies

Dependencies for programs linking against the shared Perl library will be automatically created by dpkg-shlibdeps. Note however that the shared perl library package only suggests perl-base and packages requiring any core modules from the perl package must depend upon it explicitly.

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