NAME

       Alt::Alien::FFI::System - (Deprecated) Simplified alternative to Alien::FFI that uses
       system libffi

VERSION

       version 0.23

SYNOPSIS

        env PERL_ALT_INSTALL=OVERWRITE cpanm Alt::Alien::FFI::System

DESCRIPTION

       DEPRECATED: As noted below, this distribution was intended for use by system integrators
       packaging FFI::Platypus that didn't want to add the real Alien::FFI and its dependencies
       to their build chain.  As of version 0.69, FFI::Platypus will use "pkg-config" and the
       system "libffi" if it is already installed, and skip the install of Alien::FFI. Thus, this
       module is now redundant.  It may be removed from CPAN, but not before January 1st 2020.

       This distribution provides an alternative implementation of Alien::FFI that is geared
       toward system integrators when libffi is provided by the operating system.  It has no non-
       core requirements for runtime as of Perl 5.8.  It now uses use Test::Alien for consistency
       with the original Alien::FFI.

       It will NOT attempt to download or install libffi.  If you need that, then install the
       original Alien::FFI instead.

CAVEATS

       Test::Alien is now part of Alien::Build, so if you need to run the tests, the prereqs
       aren't that much lighter than the real ALien::FFI, so you should consider:

       do your own testing
       skip tests
       switch to the real Alien::FFI

SEE ALSO

       Alt
       Alien::FFI
       FFI::Platypus
       FFI::CheckLib

AUTHOR

       Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Graham Ollis.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       the Perl 5 programming language system itself.