FFI-Platypus | Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries | Wrapper library

FFI-Platypus is a Perl library typically used in Utilities, Wrapper applications. FFI-Platypus has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Platypus is a library for creating interfaces to machine code libraries written in languages like C, C++, Go, 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. There are a number of reasons why you might want to write an extension with Platypus instead of XS:. This document consists of an API reference, a set of examples, some support and development (for contributors) information. If you are new to Platypus or FFI, you may want to skip down to the EXAMPLES to get a taste of what you can do with Platypus. Platypus has extensive documentation of types at FFI::Platypus::Type and its custom types API at FFI::Platypus::API. You are strongly encouraged to use API level 1 for all new code. There are a number of improvements and design fixes that you get for free. You should even consider updating existing modules to use API level 1 where feasible. How do I do that you might ask? Simply pass in the API level to the platypus constructor. The Platypus documentation has already been updated to assume API level 1.