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NAME

Imager::Probe - hot needle of inquiry for libraries

SYNOPSIS

  require Imager::Probe;

  my %probe = 
    (
     # short name of what we're looking for (displayed to user)
     name => "FOO",
     # pkg-config lookup
     pkg => [ qw/name1 name2 name3/ ],
     # perl subs that probe for the library
     code => [ \&foo_probe1, \&foo_probe2 ],
     # or just: code => \&foo_probe,
     inccheck => sub { ... },
     libcheck => sub { ... },
     # search for this library if libcheck not supplied
     libbase => "foo",
     # library link time options, uses libbase to build options otherwise
     libopts => "-lfoo",
     # C code to check the library is sane
     testcode => "...",
     # header files needed
     testcodeheaders => [ "stdio.h", "foo.h" ],
    );
  my $result = Imager::Probe->probe(\%probe)
    or print "Foo library not found: ",Imager::Probe->error;

DESCRIPTION

Does the probes that were hidden in Imager's Makefile.PL, pulled out so the file format libraries can be externalized.

The return value is either nothing if the probe fails, or a hash containing:

The possible values for the hash supplied to the probe() method are:

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