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# NAME

ExtUtils::Miniperl, writemain - write the C code for perlmain.c

# SYNOPSIS

`use ExtUtils::Miniperl;`

`writemain(@directories);`

# DESCRIPTION

This whole module is written when perl itself is built from a script called minimod.PL. In case you want to patch it, please patch minimod.PL in the perl distribution instead.

`writemain()` takes an argument list of directories containing archive libraries that relate to perl modules and should be linked into a new perl binary. It writes to STDOUT a corresponding perlmain.c file that is a plain C file containing all the bootstrap code to make the modules associated with the libraries available from within perl.

The typical usage is from within a Makefile generated by ExtUtils::MakeMaker. So under normal circumstances you won't have to deal with this module directly.

# SEE ALSO

MakeMaker