Net::DBus ========= Net::DBus provides a Perl XS API to the dbus inter-application messaging system. The Perl API covers the core base level of the dbus APIs, not concerning itself yet with the GLib or QT wrappers. For more information on dbus visit the project website at: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ This version operates against DBus 0.33, through 0.60, and possibly later versions, if there have been no serious API changes. INSTALLATION ------------ To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test sudo make install The makefile calls the C script to determine the correct flags to pass to the compiler & linkers when building the XS part of the module. Thus, ensure pkg-config is in a directory listed by the $PATH environment. The pkg-config program will likely find the DBus install in /usr provided by the base OS distribution, so if testing against an alternate install of DBus, set the C$PKG_CONFIG_PATH env variable before generating the Makefile. For example, if your dbus installation is in C<$HOME/usr/dbus-cvs-tip> , then to build and install against this version of DBus do export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/usr/dbus-cvs-tip/lib/pkg-config perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=$HOME/usr/dbus-cvs-tip make make test make install DEPENDENCIES ------------ In keeping with the C API, the Perl DBus implementation has minimal external dependancies: Time::HiRes XML::Twig XML::Parser And to run the test suite: Test::More Test::Pod (optional, but recommended) Test::Pod::Coverage (optional, but recommended) Although they are not part of the base Perl distribution, most OS distributor will already provide addon packages containing these modules. Failing this, they are all available from CPAN http://search.cpan.org/ EXAMPLES -------- There are a number of example programs in the examples/ subdirectory demonstrating use of the high level application developer APIs. example-service.pl - Providing a simple service example-client.pl - Talking to a remote service example-signal-emitter.pl - How to broadcast signals example-signal-receiver.pl - How to receive signals dump-object.pl - Dump info about dbus objects lshal.pl - Dump names of all HAL devices CONTRIBUTIONS ------------- Contributions both simple bug fixes & new features are always welcome. Please supply patches in context, or unified diff format. A simple method to generate such a patch is as follows: * Clean out generated files from your working directory: make distclean * Rename your working directory to have '-new' extension: mv DBus-0.33.3 DBus-0.33.3-new * Extract a pristine copy of the source: gunzip -c DBus-0.33.3.tar.gz | tar xf - mv DBus-0.33.3 DBus-0.33.3-orig * Generate the patch: diff -ruN DBus-0.33.3-orig DBus-0.33.3-new \ > DBus-0.33.3-[something].patch gzip DBus-0.33.3-[something].patch Send the resulting to .patch.gz file directly to Daniel Berrange COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE --------------------- Copyright (C) 2004-2006 Daniel Berrange Net-DBus may be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of Perl itself. Either: a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version or b) the "Artistic License" See the file "COPYING" for the full text of each license -- End