devel/p5-FFI-Platypus 2.12 FreeBSD

Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI

System: FreeBSD
Repository: FreeBSD ports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Last update: 2026-09-19
Commit: a58a355ab4
License: ART10, GPLv1+
Categories: devel, perl5
Package size: 291.0 KiB, 729.5 KiB installed

Description

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.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 2.12, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

FreeBSD

devel/p5-FFI-Platypus

2.12 newest

none known

[email protected]

2026-09-19

NetBSD

wip/p5-FFI-Platypus by name

1.31 behind since 2026-09-19

none known

[email protected]

DragonFly

devel/p5-FFI-Platypus

2.10 behind since 2026-09-19

none known

[email protected]

HardenedBSD

devel/p5-FFI-Platypus

2.12 newest

no data

[email protected]

GhostBSD

devel/p5-FFI-Platypus

2.12 newest

no data

[email protected]

Compare across BSDs

Version history 1

2.12 2026-09-19 a58a355ab4

Upstream's version as each commit to the port's Makefile set it, or as this site first saw it in the system's packages; the tree's own revisions are not versions here.

Install

Binary package:

pkg install p5-FFI-Platypus

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/devel/p5-FFI-Platypus/ && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	p5-FFI-Platypus>0:devel/p5-FFI-Platypus

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repository	aarch64	amd64	armv6	armv7	i386
FreeBSD:14:latest	2.12	2.12	2.05	2.10	2.12
FreeBSD:14:quarterly	2.12	2.12	n/a	2.10	2.12
FreeBSD:15:latest	2.12	2.12	n/a	2.10	2.10
FreeBSD:15:quarterly	2.12	2.12	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:16:latest	2.12	2.12	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:16:quarterly	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

graph LR
  me["devel/p5-FFI-Platypus"]
  u0["archivers/p5-Archive-Libarchive"] --> me
  u1["devel/p5-FFI-C"] --> me
  u2["devel/p5-FFI-C-Stat"] --> me
  u3["devel/p5-FFI-Platypus-Declare"] --> me
  u4["devel/p5-FFI-Platypus-Lang-Rust"] --> me
  u5["devel/p5-FFI-Platypus-Type-PtrObject"] --> me
  u6["devel/p5-Test2-Tools-FFI"] --> me
  u7["devel/p5-Unix-Groups-FFI"] --> me
  umore(["4 more"]) -.-> me
  me --> d0["devel/libffi"]
  me --> d1["devel/p5-Capture-Tiny"]
  me --> d2["devel/p5-FFI-CheckLib"]
  me --> d3["lang/perl5.42"]
  me --> d4["print/indexinfo"]
  me --> d5["sysutils/p5-File-Which"]
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Build 2

p5-Capture-Tiny>=0 : devel/p5-Capture-Tiny
p5-FFI-CheckLib>=0.05 : devel/p5-FFI-CheckLib

Library 1

libffi.so : devel/libffi

Runtime 2

p5-Capture-Tiny>=0 : devel/p5-Capture-Tiny
p5-FFI-CheckLib>=0.05 : devel/p5-FFI-CheckLib

Test 1

p5-Test-Simple>=1.302200 : devel/p5-Test-Simple

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

Build dependencies 9

Run dependencies 6

Required by 12

Configuration

No options to configure.

USES: gmake perl5 pkgconfig
Service scripts: none

Files

pkg-plist 98

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%%SITE_ARCH%%/FFI/Build/File/C.pm
%%SITE_ARCH%%/FFI/Build/File/CXX.pm
%%SITE_ARCH%%/FFI/Build/File/Library.pm
%%SITE_ARCH%%/FFI/Build/File/Object.pm
%%SITE_ARCH%%/FFI/Build/MM.pm
%%SITE_ARCH%%/FFI/Build/Platform.pm
%%SITE_ARCH%%/FFI/Build/Plugin.pm
%%SITE_ARCH%%/FFI/Build/PluginData.pm
%%SITE_ARCH%%/FFI/Platypus.pm
%%SITE_ARCH%%/FFI/Platypus/API.pm
%%SITE_ARCH%%/FFI/Platypus/Buffer.pm
%%SITE_ARCH%%/FFI/Platypus/Bundle.pm
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%%SITE_ARCH%%/FFI/Platypus/Lang/Win32.pm
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%%SITE_ARCH%%/FFI/Platypus/Record/Meta.pm
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%%SITE_ARCH%%/FFI/Platypus/Type/StringArray.pm
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%%SITE_ARCH%%/FFI/typemap
%%SITE_ARCH%%/auto/FFI/Platypus/Constant/Constant.txt
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FFI-Platypus-2.12.tar.gz

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Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-09-19

a58a355ab4

Po-Chuan Hsieh

devel/p5-FFI-Platypus: Update to 2.12

Changes: https://metacpan.org/dist/FFI-Platypus/changes