Alien::Sodium(3pm)

👑 Alien::Sodium

okay bestie, so this whole page is the manual for Alien::Sodium — the Perl module that's basically a little matchmaker between your code and the libsodium library <http://libsodium.org>. It lives in the "User Contributed Perl Documentation" corner of your system, and it's giving very chill, very short, very iconic. Let's go 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

Alien::Sodium — Interface to the libsodium library <http://libsodium.org>

That's it, that's the name. It's an interface, it's the interface, and the library it's interfacing with is the one at <http://libsodium.org>. No cap. 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

Here's the whole vibe in code, babes. This is literally character-for-character what you'd write:

use strict;
use warnings;

use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
use Config;
use Alien::Base::Wrapper ();

WriteMakefile(
  Alien::Base::Wrapper->new('Alien::Sodium')->mm_args2(
    ...
    CONFIGURE_REQUIRES => {
      'Alien::Sodium' => '2.000',
    },
    ...
  ),
);

So you're pulling in strict, you're pulling in warnings (iconic, responsible, obsessed), then ExtUtils::MakeMaker, then Config, then Alien::Base::Wrapper — note the empty parens after it, that's the "don't auto-import anything, I got this" energy ✨ — and then you WriteMakefile with an Alien::Base::Wrapper->new('Alien::Sodium')->mm_args2(...) call wrapped around all your usual args.

The little bit that matters for us is the CONFIGURE_REQUIRES hash saying you need 'Alien::Sodium' => '2.000' — version 2.000, bestie, don't come in under that 💖

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

This package is here for all the other CPAN <https://metacpan.org> modules out there that need libsodium <http://libsodium.org>.

That's the whole description. It's a helper. It's a fixer. It handles the "hey where is libsodium and how do I link against it" of it all so your CPAN module doesn't have to. Main character energy on behalf of other modules, fr fr 🫶

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• libsodium <http://libsodium.org> — the actual library, the whole reason we're here, the moment 💜

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Alex J. G. Burzyński <ajgb@cpan.org>

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🦋 CONTRIBUTORS 🦋

Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

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💖 COPYRIGHT & LICENSE 💖

Copyright (c) 2015 Alex J. G. Burzyński. All rights reserved.

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

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ngl the license is the easiest vibe check on the whole page: it's free software, same terms as Perl itself, you may redistribute and/or modify it. Slay ✨

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aaaand that's the whole page!! this one was documented with perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-20, and it sits under the User Contributed Perl Documentation umbrella 🎀 no cap, go build something with libsodium now, mwah 💅🌸