NAME

Alien::FFI - Build and make available libffi

VERSION

version 0.04

SYNOPSIS

In your Build.PL:

 use Alien::FFI;
 use Module::Build;
 
 my $build = Module::Build->new(
   ...
   extra_compiler_flags => Alien::FFI->cflags,
   extra_linker_flags   => Alien::FFI->libs,
   ...
 );
 
 $build->create_build_script;

In your FFI::Raw script:

 use Alien::FFI;
 use FFI::Raw;
 
 my($dll) = Alien::FFI->dynamic_libs;
 FFI::Raw->new($dll, '...', ...);

DESCRIPTION

This distribution installs libffi so that it can be used by other Perl distributions. If already installed for your operating system, and it can be found, this distribution will use the libffi that comes with your operating system, otherwise it will download it from the Internet, build and install it fro you.

AUTHOR

Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Graham Ollis.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.