Add build project before launch task

[hurricup]

If we have a Makefile.PL we need to run it with make

[rwp0]

Actually we do perl Makefile.PL, and then run make on the generated Makefile.

And that's only for ExtUtils-MakeMaker distributions.

For Module-Build distributions we do:

perl Build.PL
./Build
./Build test
./Build install

instead.

The latter, being pure Perl, doesn't require the make utility to be present (which may be absent on Windows).

Both of these are core Perl distribution builders.

[hurricup]

Looks like there are several build systems we need to support: ExtUtils::MakeMaker, Module::Build, Dist::Zilla (which is just a proxy to the MakeMaker in terms of building as far as I understand, but still)

Also there is an issue with prove, see Perl-Toolchain-Gang/Test-Harness#117

[hurricup]

perl on windows may have make or dmake. Msys2 helps a lot with this.

[rwp0]

Dist::Zilla (which is just a proxy to the MakeMaker in terms of building as far as I understand, but still)

Dist-Zilla can be a front-end to many things including ExtUtils-MakeMaker and Module-Build.

It just has a lot of built-in and external plugins that can do almost anything imaginable.

[hurricup]

I expect a lot of problems with Dist::Zilla because it makes/runs tests in the build sandbox. Not sure how to handle that yet. Probably will need to map stuff like coverage/profiling/debugging

[rwp0]

I expect a lot of problems with Dist::Zilla because it makes/runs tests in the build sandbox. Not sure how to handle that yet. Probably will need to map stuff like coverage/profiling/debugging

Yes, it's not in the core, and has a lot of dependencies, Moose included.

So I think it might be better to start supporting ExtUtils-MakeMaker and Module-Build as the Perl build systems at the initial phase.

What I personally do is just create run configurations for Dist-Zilla to be run in the IDE's Run window which is being almost always just enough for my use case.

So a plain menu with those four command could suffice for now:

dzil build
dzil install
dzil release
dzil clean