This module is a Perl wrapper around libevent(3) as available from <http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/>. It allows to execute a function whenever a given event on a filehandle happens, a timeout occurs or a signal is received.
INSTALLATION
To install this module type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
In case you have several libevents installed and you'd like to use the one in /usr/local/(lib|include):
perl Makefile.PL INC=-I/usr/local/include LIBS="-L/usr/local/lib -levent"
make
make test
make install
For debugging-support, do:
DEPENDENCIES
This module requires these other modules and libraries:
+ libevent(3) from <http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/>;
it's advisable to always use the latest version but
everything >= 0.9 should work
+ a C compiler
+ recommended for the test-suite: GTop as available from the CPAN;
if you have it installed, the test-suite will run memory-leak
tests as well.
SOURCE
Normally you'd get the latest version of Event-Lib from CPAN. But if you want to try the cutting edge version (especially if you plan on sending patches), please consider using the svn version, which can be checked out via:
svn co http://svn.perl.org/modules/Event-Lib/trunk/ Event-Lib
You can also browse the svn tree online via:
http://svn.perl.org/viewcvs/modules/Event-Lib/
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Copyright (C) 2004-2007 by Tassilo von Parseval
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.4 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.