Source: libffi-platypus-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: C.J. Collier , gregor herrmann Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), libalt-alien-ffi-system-perl, libconfig-autoconf-perl (>= 0.309), libffi-checklib-perl, libfile-sharedir-perl, libmodule-build-perl, perl (>= 5.21.4) Standards-Version: 3.9.8 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libffi-platypus-perl.git Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-perl/packages/libffi-platypus-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/FFI-Platypus Package: libffi-platypus-perl Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, libffi-checklib-perl, libfile-sharedir-perl, libmodule-build-perl, perl (>= 5.21.4) Description: module to create Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI FFI::Platypus is a library for creating interfaces to machine code libraries written in languages like C, C++, Fortran, Rust, Pascal. Essentially anything that gets compiled into machine code. This implementation uses libffi to accomplish this task. libffi is battle tested by a number of other scripting and virtual machine languages, such as Python and Ruby to serve a similar role.