Net/LibIDN version 0.12
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This module provides Perl bindings for GNU Libidn by Simon Josefsson
(http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/) in way that was heavily inspired
by PHP bindings for the same library done by Turbo Fredriksson
(http://php-idn.bayour.com/).

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL [--with-libidn=<LIBPATH> --with-libidn-inc=<INCPATH> --disable-tld]
   make
   make test
   make install

Installing under Cygwin:

   Sergei Koladka reports that the first make line above needs to be replaced by

     make LD_RUN_PATH="/usr/lib" LDLOADLIBS="/usr/lib/libidn.a
         \/usr/lib/libiconv.dll.a"

   assuming that Libidn was compiled with --prefix=/usr. You also will need to
   remove the >>die "This module requires GNU Libidn..."<<-line and manually set
   $libidn either to 2 or 1 depending on whether you have/want to use TLD
   checking support.

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

  GNU Libidn >=0.5.0

Linux hint: If Makefile.PL says that it cannot find GNU Libidn, even though
you compiled/installed it, consider adding the location of the Libidn .so
files to /etc/ld.so.conf. Also, take a look at the --with-libidn and
--with-libidn-inc options.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

			   Perl Module Net::LibIDN

		       Copyright 2003-2009, Thomas Jacob, Internet24.de
			   All rights reserved

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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