view release on metacpan or  search on metacpan

lib/Alien/YARA.pm  view on Meta::CPAN

 $ffi->lib( Alien::YARA->dynamic_libs );

 # Now attach your C functions
 $ffi->attach( 'yr_initialize' => [] => 'int' );

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This module acts as an encapsulation layer for the YARA C library (C<libyara>).
It checks your host system to see if YARA is already installed via native package
management (like C<apt>, C<homebrew>, or C<pkgconf>). If it cannot find a suitable
global version, it automatically downloads the official YARA source code,
compiles it, and isolates the binaries locally within your Perl library tree.

This makes bundling dependencies for FFI-based modules like L<YaraFFI> perfectly
cross-platform across Linux, macOS, and Windows.

=head1 METHODS

This class inherits all methods from L<Alien::Base>. The most critical ones for FFI usage are:

=head2 dist_dir