Module::Build::Platform::VMS - Builder class for VMS platforms This module inherits from "Module::Build::Base" and alters a few minor details of its functionality. Please see Module::Build for the general docs.

Overridden Methods
Change $self->{build_script} to 'Build.com' so @Build works. '@Build foo' on VMS will not preserve the case of 'foo'. Rather than forcing people to write '@Build "foo"' we'll dispatch case-insensitively. Use '__' instead of '::'. Prefixify taking into account VMS' filepath syntax. Command-line arguments (but not the command itself) must be quoted to ensure case preservation. There is no native fork(), so some constructs depending on it are not available. Override to ensure that we quote the arguments but not the command. Override to ensure that we quote the arguments but not the command. Inherit the standard version but tweak the library file name to be something Dynaloader can find. Inherit the standard version but remove dots at end of name. This may not be necessary if File::Find has been fixed or DECC$FILENAME_UNIX_REPORT is in effect. Inherit the standard version but replace embedded dots with underscores because a dot is the directory delimiter on VMS. Inherit the standard version but chop the extra manpage delimiter off the front if there is one. The VMS version of splitdir('[.foo]') returns '', 'foo'. Inherit the standard version but relativize the paths as the native glob() doesn't do that for us. The home-grown glob() does not currently handle tildes, so provide limited support here. Expect only UNIX format file specifications for now. On VMS, $^X returns the fully qualified absolute path including version number. It's logically impossible to improve on it for getting the perl we're currently running, and attempting to manipulate it is usually lossy. Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> Ken Williams <kwilliams@cpan.org> Craig A. Berry <craigberry@mac.com> perl(1), Module::Build(3), ExtUtils::MakeMaker(3)