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 (>= 11), libalt-alien-ffi-system-perl (>= 0.20), libcapture-tiny-perl, libextutils-parsexs-perl (>= 3.300000), libffi-checklib-perl, libscalar-list-utils-perl (>= 1:1.45), perl (>= 5.25.2) Standards-Version: 4.3.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libffi-platypus-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/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}, libcapture-tiny-perl, libffi-checklib-perl, libscalar-list-utils-perl (>= 1:1.45), perl (>= 5.25.2) 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.