Hey everybody -

Based on Joel Berger's excellent (and still developing) work on
Alien::Base, I've written Alien packages for FFCall and libffi. They
include some basic docs and a few tests (of the C libraries directly; not
Perl-level tests). You can see my work here:

http://github.com/run4flat/Alien-FFI
http://github.com/run4flat/Alien-FFCall

To see how to use these sorts of modules, you can see how I modified FFI's
code in my branch here:
http://github.com/run4flat/perl-FFI
The commit history is particularly useful:
https://github.com/run4flat/perl-FFI/commits/master

I would *really* like something to hit CPAN soon so that I can release my
Perl-TCC bindings. Those bindings will only really be useful when the
wrappers for one of these libraries is available, so any and all work that
you could bring to this would be greatly appreciated. With my
modifications, FFI is basically ready to be wrapped into v1.05 and pushed
to CPAN. I have not looked closely at the Ctypes work, though I would
ultimately like to use that as it seems to be more robust.

:-D

David

--
 "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
  Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
  by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan