PERLI11NDOC(1)

🌸 perli11ndoc(1) — User Contributed Perl Documentation, but make it bestie-core 🌸

✨ NAME ✨

perli11ndoc — view documentation of installed libraries bound using Glib::Object::Introspection

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🦋 ABSTRACT 🦋

okay so perli11ndoc allows you to view Perl documentation for Glib libraries bound to Perl using Glib::Object::Introspection. No cap, that's the whole vibe. 💅

Glib::Object::Introspection uses the gobject-introspection and libffi projects to dynamically create Perl bindings for a wide variety of libraries. Examples include gtk+, webkit, libsoup, and many more. All libraries currently installed will be shown with Perl-specific documentation and examples. Where Glib::Object::Introspection differs from the C library, differences are pointed out and the Perl-specific interface is defined. ✨

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🎀 DEPENDENCIES 🎀

Dependency check, bestie: perli11ndoc requires that XML::LibXML be installed to run. It also requires that the corresponding C library headers be installed on the system to provide documentation. For instance, on a Debian-based system you would need libgtk-3-dev to see the Perl introspected documentation for Gtk3. 🫶

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• perl-Glib: Glib
• gobject-introspection: <http://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection>
• libffi: <http://sourceware.org/libffi/>
• Glib::Object::Introspection: <https://metacpan.org/pod/Glib::Object::Introspection>

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Emmanuele Bassi — <ebassi at linux intel com>
• muppet — <scott asofyet org>
• Torsten Schönfeld — <kaffeetisch at gmx de>

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💜 LICENSE 💜

Legally speaking (and we love a clear license era): this utility is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Lesser General Public License (LGPL). For more information, see http://www.fsf.org/licenses/lgpl.txt. 🎀

💖 okay bye bestie — this page is from perl v5.40.2, dated 2025-09-04, and the manual tag is PERLI11NDOC(1). periodt. 💖