NAME
Alien::FFCall - an Alien package for the FFCall library (predecessor to libffi)
DESCRIPTION
This is maintained primarily for historical reasons. If you want a foreign
function interface, you should look into FFI::Platypus, which uses the
more robust and currently maintained libffi, rather than the older ffcall.
This Alien package, built on Alien::Base, provides the FFCall library. FFCall
has been surpassed by libffi and is rather hard to obtain these days, but Perl's
original FFI module is built upon FFCall, so I decided to make it easy to distribute
FFCall on CPAN.
INSTALLATION
To install this module, run the following commands:
perl Build.PL
./Build
./Build test
./Build install
SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION
The best place to get help for this module is to file Issues on github:
https://github.com/run4flat/Alien-FFCall/issues
Mostly, I don't expect that you'll want to use this module directly, but
should look into FFI:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/FFI/
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
Written by David Mertens, Copyright 2012 Northwestern University
LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.
See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.