A perl project for someone - ExtUtils::Embed

If you look at the newly added lib/ExtUtils/Embed.t it becomes obvious
that far too much messy knowledge is still required and that ExtUtils::Embed
needs another abstraction or two.

I think it needs something like 

   cccmd($ofile)

which takes care of $Config{'cc'} and whatever is needed as equivalent 
of -o for the platform - including appending $Config{'exe_ext'} if 
required.

Something else which handles need for -link before linker args for VC++'s cl
would be nice.

It would also help the Embed.t in particular if whatever is doing the 
search(es) for -lperl had special case for an un-intstalled core build.

In a perfect world we could install a script - let me call it embedcc
which took -o -c -L -I as per a "normal" UNIX C compiler and it appended 
all the other mess that is needed to build for embedding:

embedcc -o myapp myapp.c  

Ideally the person taking on the project would have access to Win32 
build environment as that is one of the messy ones.

-- 
Nick Ing-Simmons
http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/

• A perl project for someone - ExtUtils::Embed by Nick Ing-Simmons