Alien:...termkey(3pm)

💖 Alien::libtermkey — the manual, but make it slay 💖

okay bestie, sit down, we're talking about Alien::libtermkey, a lil Perl module from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual. it's an Alien wrapping for libtermkey, and honestly? she's doing the most so you don't have to. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

Alien::libtermkey — Alien wrapping for libtermkey. that's it, that's the name, periodt. 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea. this CPAN distribution wraps the C library libtermkey in a wrapper that's suitable to drive CPAN and other Perl-related build infrastructure. it's giving "I handle the scary C stuff so your Perl build can just vibe." 😌

here's how it works:

• if the C library is already installed and known by pkg-config, this module provides a simple access to its configuration. easy peasy, no cap. ✨
• if it's not installed, the process of installing it will install a locally-bundled copy of the library into perl's arch-specific library directory. so it literally brings its own. main character energy fr fr. 👑

and the version she's bundling? libtermkey version 0.22. iconic, locked in, no notes. 🎀

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🦋 METHODS 🦋

this module behaves like ExtUtils::PkgConfig, responding to the same methods, except that the module name is implied. so you don't gotta spell everything out, she already knows who she is. 💜

thus, the configuration can be obtained by calling:

$cflags = Alien::libtermkey->cflags
$libs = Alien::libtermkey->libs

$ok = Alien::libtermkey->atleast_version( $version )

etc...

lowkey that etc... is doing so much heavy lifting and I respect it deeply. 🙈

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> — thank you for your service, king. 🫡💖

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and that's the whole page, bestie! this was Alien:...termkey(3pm) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, running on perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25. go forth and wrap some C libraries, you absolute legend. 🌈⭐💅