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.