The Incredible Journey

I recently received a bug report about installing Image::PNG::Libpng on Strawberry Perl. It was failing to install due to using the wrong C compiler.

Up to version 0.44 of the module, I'd been checking for the presence of libpng using Devel::CheckLib, however somehow or another that didn't seem to be working and I'd gone back to using my own module to detect the library.

Although this improvised detecting module was getting its information about the compiler flags and library flags from Config, I'd omitted to use the information about what the C compiler might be. Once I changed my module to get its information on the C compiler from $Config::Config{cc}, it worked on Strawberry Perl too.

So now you can use Lego::FromPNG, FuseBead::FromPNG, and some other modules on Strawberry Perl.