Source Filters Version 1.57 2014-12-09 rurban Copyright (c) 1995-2011 Paul Marquess. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2011-2014 Reini Urban. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. DESCRIPTION ----------- This distribution consists of a number of Source Filters. For more details see the pod documentation embedded in the .pm files. If you intend using the Filter::Util::Call functionality, I would strongly recommend that you check out Damian Conway's excellent Filter::Simple module. Damian's module provides a much cleaner interface than Filter::Util::Call. Although it doesn't allow the fine control that Filter::Util::Call does, it should be adequate for the majority of applications. It's available at http://search.cpan.org/dist/Filter-Simple/ LIMITATIONS ----------- Source filters only work on the string level, thus are highly limited in its ability to change source code on the fly. It cannot detect comments, quoted strings, heredocs, it is no replacement for a real parser. The only stable usage for source filters are encryption, compression, or the byteloader, to translate binary code back to source code. See for example the limitations in Switch, which uses source filters, and thus is does not work inside a string eval, the presence of regexes with embedded newlines that are specified with raw /.../ delimiters and don't have a modifier //x are indistinguishable from code chunks beginning with the division operator /. As a workaround you must use m/.../ or m?...? for such patterns. Also, the presence of regexes specified with raw ?...? delimiters may cause mysterious errors. The workaround is to use m?...? instead. See http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Switch#LIMITATIONS Currently internal buffer lengths are limited to 32-bit only. PREREQUISITES ------------- Before you can build the Source Filters you need to have the following installed on your system: * Perl 5.005 or better. 5.6.0 or better is recommended for Win32. If your Perl is less than version 5.004_55, the "order" test harness will be skipped. BUILDING THE MODULES -------------------- Assuming you have met all the prerequisites, building the modules should be relatively straightforward. The modules can now be built using this sequence of commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test Building in parallel (-j4) does not work. The filters have been successfully built and tested on the following systems (at least): linux (gcc or clang) cygwin 1.7 mingw strawberry 5.14 SunOS 4.1.3 (Sun C compiler & gcc 2.7.2.3) Solaris 2.3 (Sun C Compiler) irix 5.3 irix 6.x Windows XP (Visual C++ 6.0) On Windows tr.exe and cpp.exe should be really the gnu/mingw tools in the path for the testsuite to pass successfully. INSTALLATION ------------ make install UPDATES ------- The most recent version of the Filters is always available at http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Filter