Revision history for FFI-Platypus

0.87      2019-04-23 08:25:35 -0400
  - Add probe for intptr_t and uintptr_t types (gh#123)
  - You may now use the ALIEN_INSTALL_TYPE environment
    to force using Alien::FFI (gh#121)
  - Documentation improvements (gh#122 manwar++ gh#120 ppisar++)

0.86      2019-03-02 16:42:12 -0500
  - Production release identical to 0.85_01

0.85_01   2019-03-01 20:38:22 -0500
  - Fix configure bug that misconfigured Perls with 32bit IVs
    resulting in truncated 64bit values. (gh#117, gh#118).
    This was a regression, probably introduced around 0.72
    or so.  The test t/gh117.t has been added to avoid a
    recurrence of this regression.

0.84      2019-02-15 15:26:23 -0500
  - FFI::Build sets @rpath on libraries that it builds
    on OS X.

0.83      2019-02-12 14:05:04 -0500
  - Fix warning in FFI::Build when verbose off
  - Allow arry file spec for FFI::Buuild source method
  - Added scalar_to_pointer to FFI::Platypus::Buffer

0.82      2019-02-10 10:34:57 -0500
  - Production release identical to 0.81_04

0.81_04   2019-02-08 14:49:20 -0500
  - Diagnostic release

0.81_02   2019-02-05 12:19:50 -0500
  - Diagnostic release

0.81_01   2019-02-04 11:51:52 -0500
  - Diagnostic release

0.80      2019-02-01 15:36:50 -0500
  - Fix incompatability with parallel bsd make

0.79      2019-01-31 20:58:07 -0500
  - Fix probe runner builder bug (gh#112, gh#113)

0.78      2019-01-30 10:28:22 -0500
  - Production release identical to 0.77_03

0.77_03   2019-01-29 21:44:29 -0500
  - Remove Java gcj examples.  The gcj compiler has been deprecated,
    unmaintained, and removed from the gcc collection for quite a while
    now.
  - Fix problem diagnostic window on Windows during probe

0.77_02   2019-01-29 11:30:56 -0500
  - Fix regressions in 0.77_01

0.77_01   2019-01-28 15:47:07 -0500
  - Honor compiler and linker flag overrides provided on the command-line
    for FFI::Probe::Runner::Builder, make ffi and make ffi-test (gh#104)

0.76_01   2019-01-20 20:14:45 -0500
  - function method can now take a wrapper code reference as its last
    argument in the same way as attach.

0.75_01   2019-01-19 04:45:19 -0500
  - Add strndup to FFI::Platypus::Memory

0.74      2019-01-19 04:42:22 -0500
  - Production release identical to 0.73_01

0.73_01   2019-01-13 18:31:33 -0500
  - Remove dependency on Win32::ErrorMode on Windows

0.72_01   2019-01-11 22:17:11 -0500
  - Remove dependency on Config::AutoConf

0.71_01   2019-01-10 23:29:06 -0500
  - Merge FFI-Build into this distribution
  - Add FFI::Probe

0.70_01   2019-01-10 15:34:57 -0500
  - prereq fix: IPC::Cmd as a configure requires
    since it doesn't come with Perl 5.8.x

0.69_01   2019-01-09 15:59:43 -0500
  - require Alien::FFI in fallback mode

0.68_01   2019-01-05 21:12:47 -0500
  - Improve platform probing of complex type
  - Allow override of platform probing using FFI_PLATYPUS_PROBE_OVERRIDE

0.67_01   2019-01-05 09:16:22 -0500
  - Better support for complex types: pointers to complex types and complex
    type and pointers to complex as return value

0.66_01   2019-01-04 20:16:59 -0500
  - EXPERIMENTAL ExtUtils::MakeMaker fixes for dynamic prereqs on windows
  - restore FFI_PLATYPUS_DEBUG_FAKE32
  - restore FFI_PLATYPUS_NO_ALLOCA

0.65_01   2019-01-04 13:38:58 -0500
  - EXPERIMENTAL ExtUtils::MakeMaker fixes for parallel and freebsd build

0.64_01   2019-01-03 03:16:57 -0500
  - EXPERIMENTAL ExtUtils::MakeMaker fixes for MSWin32 / cygwin

0.63_01   2019-01-02 11:23:48 -0500
  - EXPERIMENTAL ExtUtils::MakeMaker release

0.62_01   2019-01-01 04:23:23 -0500
  - New type: array of string "string [x]" and "string []" are supported
  - NULL terminated arrays are supported as return types for string and opaque arrays
    "opaque []" and "string []"

0.61_01   2018-12-31 19:56:20 -0500
  - New type: pointers to string "string *" are supported.
  - FFI::Platypus::Type::StringPointer is now deprecated.

0.60_01   2018-12-30 14:55:15 -0500
  - sticky/unstick functions can safely be called multiple times
  - Removed some extra lookups from closure calls, should be faster now.

0.59      2018-12-16 16:33:37 -0700
  - Workaround for possibly buggy pack/unpack on Perl 5.8.8 gh#91
    Fixes FFI::Platypus::Type::StringArray

0.58      2018-11-20 14:31:10 -0500
  - Add unstick method to FFI::Platypus::Closure

0.57_01   2018-11-04 15:36:33 -0500
  - Major refactor of the internals of the type system.  The API is
    the same but some type meta-data (which was never guaranteed
    to stay the same) may have changed.

    * The internal representation of types is much smaller (4 bytes
      for simple types), which can save a lot of memory if you have
      lots of types.

    * Fixed width strings example: `string(32)` are now internally
      treated the same as a record with no class `record(32)`.
      Previously these were separate types but worked identically,
      this removes duplicate code.

    * Fixed width string arguments to a closure are now read-only,
      Usually you should be copying these arguments anyway.

    * Removed the internal type "exotic float" which includes
      `long double`, `complex float` and `complex double`.  These are
      now grouped internally with other scalar types.

  - Merge FFI::Platypus::Type::StringArray into this distribution

0.56      2018-09-03 09:17:42 -0400
  - lib method accepts code reference which will be called immediately
    and results added to lib list

0.55      2018-08-29 10:37:36 -0400
  - Production release identical to 0.54_03

0.54_03   2018-08-28 10:46:04 -0400
  - Additional test diagnostics.

0.54_02   2018-08-28 05:30:04 -0400
  - record as closure argument is now read-only.  This makes
    sense since such records are actually copies.  For when
    you need a non-copy use an opaque type instead.  This allows
    records with rw strings (although they will be ro in the
    closure).

0.54_01   2018-08-16 03:27:31 -0400
  - Experimental: allow record as closure argument
    Records with string_rw are not supported, and
    will likely crash your script if you try to use
    them.  Support for such records is probably not in
    the cards, but a future version may disallow them
    to avoid crashes.
  - Closure objects now have a sticky method, similar to what
    is already available in the discouraged FFI::Platypus::Declare
    interface

0.53      2018-08-15 20:38:29 -0400
  - Production release identical to 0.52_04

0.52_04   2018-08-15 05:52:15 -0400
  - Work-around for Strawberry Perl 5.14.4 unicode bug (see gh#85)

0.52_03   2018-08-14 15:28:19 -0400
  - Major refactoring of test suite

0.52_02   2018-08-14 08:05:07 -0400
  - Added standard RTLD_ constants to FFI::Platypus::DL
  - Fixed long standing but till now unused bug on Windows where dlopen was
    returning a handle for libraries that weren't actually being loaded.

0.52_01   2018-08-13 20:39:32 -0400
  - Testing: moved libtest to t/ffi, using the same convention as FFI::Build
  - Added FFI::Platypus::DL.  Previously this had been (under a different
    name) a private interface to libdl used by FFI::Platypus under the covers.
    On Windows it is an emulation layer over the native equivalents.

0.51      2018-08-09 03:14:15 -0400
  - update the package method to work with FFI-Build

0.50      2018-06-01 07:58:33 -0400
  - Additional diagnostics

0.49_05   2018-05-29 12:44:45 -0400
  - Require Alien::FFI 0.20 for bugfixes

0.49_04   2018-05-27 07:36:58 -0400
  - Additional diagnostics
  - Added a FAQ section.  Some other minor documentation enhancements.

0.49_03   2018-05-19 10:09:15 -0400
  - The previous version contained build files that would break the install
    unless you were building on my machine.  This is what the previous
    version should have been.

0.49_02   2018-05-18 22:08:43 -0400
  - Fix version mismatch error with XS

0.49_01   2018-05-18 16:16:13 -0400
  - Move the source repository for this project into the GitHub org Perl5-FFI
    The new URL is https://github.org/Perl5-FFI/FFI-Platypus
  - Remove dependency on JSON::PP, use Data::Dumper for build configuration.
    This may improve startup performance.

0.48      2018-02-20 09:37:32 -0500
  - setting lib => undef is now the same as setting it to [undef] in the constructor
    (previously lib => undef was ignored)

0.47      2017-03-23 18:26:01 -0400
  - Fix installer bug where My::ShareConfig was accidentally declared as a
    prereq

0.46      2017-03-23 15:47:29 -0400
  - Remove some internal use of Module::Build with the intent of one day
    migrating to EUMM or some other installer
  - Remove Module::Build::FFI.  It now has its own distribution.
  - Prefix the lang attribute with an equal '=' sign to indicate a fully qualified
    class name instead of one under FFI::Platypus::Lang

0.45      2016-10-24 07:59:57 -0400
  - Remove check for Threaded Perl / OpenBSD, as the issue there has been reported fixed

0.44      2016-10-20 14:31:23 -0400
  - You can now control which implementation of strdup FFI::Platypus::Memory uses
    via the FFI_PLATYPUS_MEMORY_STRDUP_IMPL environment variable.

0.43      2016-07-08 03:28:57 -0400
  - Numerous fixes for systems with 64bit big-endian arch
    (previously only 32bit big-endian had been tested)
  - Officially discourage the use of FFI::Platypus::Declare

0.42      2016-05-06 16:31:01 -0400
  - Support for MSYS2

0.41      2016-04-09 16:03:07 -0400
  - For the return value undef can be passed in to mean 'void'.
  - Fixed installer bug where ABI probe would silently fail if /tmp
    was mounted noexec
  - Avoid unnecessary downgrade on when Perl is compiled to use longdouble

0.40      2015-08-29 08:45:19 -0400
  - Closure declerations ignore white space between () and ->

0.39      2015-08-24 03:23:10 -0400
  - Fixed spurious warning: auto loading of record class (via FFI::Platypus::Record)
    was ALWAYS warning, when it should have only been warning on load failure.

0.38      2015-08-13 17:13:07 -0400
  - closure method now comes with a more useful diagnostic thinks to
    Carp::croak
  - Added a check for standard C headers.  This seems to help the configure
    stage find ptrdiff_t, which was frequently not detected correctly
    (at least on Linux).
  - Improved thread safety by using MY_CXT for some very infrequently used
    global variables.
  - Added IRC meta data information for metacpan.org.  Please join us at
    #native on irc.perl.org!
  - Many minor documentation corrections and tweaks.  Most significant is
    that Convert::Binary::C can now be recommended as it is once again
    properly maintained.
  - Added tests for threads and forks.  If these tests fail in your environment
    please let me know!

0.37      2015-05-29 14:28:21 -0400
  - Added compatability back in for older version of constant
    (newer one is not available on CPAN yet)

0.36      2015-05-29 13:40:32 -0400
  - Explicitly require constant pragma version 1.32

0.35      2015-05-29 12:06:39 -0400
  - FFI::Platypus::Record uses constant to create size of alignment constants
    instead of creating them with a sub reference (this usage was deprecated
    in Perl 5.22)

0.34      2015-05-07 09:27:04 -0400
  - Require Alien::FFI which is more reliable at configure time on some platforms

0.33      2015-03-23 21:55:02 -0400
  - Additional fix for Microsoft Visual C++ that didn't get folded into
    the previous release.
  - Fixed segfault during global destruction (gh#53)

0.32      2015-03-18 13:02:53 -0400
  - Make sure -L flags from Alien::FFI come before those in perl Config
    For more reliable builds
  - Support for Microsoft Visual C++ (you will probably also need
    Alien::FFI 0.09 or beter)

0.31      2015-02-26 13:41:23 -0500
  - Fix bug involving wide custom arguments
    "wide" meaning where a single Perl argument is translated
    into multiple machine code arguments.  (pipcet++ gh#43)

0.30      2015-02-25 17:50:54 -0500
  - You can now pass an opaque in place of a closure type (pipcet++ gh#40,gh#41)
  - FFI closures are now cached and can be reused if the same closure is passed
    repeatedly (pipcet++ gh#40,gh#42)
  - Passing non-reference to scalar as a pointer argument will now issue a warning
    (gh#5)

0.29      2015-02-24 08:50:34 -0500
  - Delayed loading of Win32::ErrorMode to avoid build prereq failure on Windows

0.28      2015-02-23 14:01:54 -0500
  - Fix Win32 probe prereq on non-Strawberry 5.20.x+
  - Fix for Solaris cc

0.27      2015-02-22 11:17:05 -0500
  - Interface to alternate ABIs / calling conventions
  - Added abi method
  - Added abis class method
  - Simplify Win32 probe
  - Added FFI::Platypus::Lang::Win32 which provides data types used by
    the Windows API.  Takes care of subtle differences between
    Win32 and Win64.
  - Fixed bugs specific to 5.8.x
  - Language plugins can now specify an ABI with abi class method
  - Default ABI for FFI::Platypus::Lang::Win32 is stdcall on 32bit windows

0.26      2015-02-18 17:47:43 -0500
  - Added support for pointers to longdouble (in C "long double *") type
  - Added support for array of longdouble (in C "long double []") type
  - Added tied array interface for record array members (see FFI::Platypus::Record::TieArray)
    Marked as EXPERIMENTAL
  - Array members of records can now be accessed (set/get) by element
  - Array members of records types are now documented (see FFI::Platypus::Record)
  - Bugfix: array wasn't being updated on return for variable length
    array types
  - Should now build with an Alien::FFI that was built with ALIEN_FORCE=1

0.25      2015-02-16 20:18:41 -0500
  - Probe for proper long double support instead of trusting ffi.h
  - This disables long double support on cygwin, which does not seem to
    work, at least in so far as it seems to work on other platforms
    patches to prove otherwise are welcome.

0.24      2015-02-16 15:38:58 -0500
  - Fixed Windows / Strawberry configuration issues

0.23      2015-02-16 05:44:39 -0500
  - Support for longdouble (in C "long double") type.
  - Support for complex_float (in C "float complex") type
  - Support for complex_double (in C "double complex") type
  - Fixes for Big Endian architectures (tested on Linux PowerPC)

0.22      2015-02-12 07:47:32 -0500
  - Variable length arrays
  - More recent version of Config::AutoConf required in the configure step
    (gh#33 zmughal)
  - Documentation improvements and additional examples, including a
    crazy Java one

0.21      2015-02-09 06:23:03 -0500
  - Added FFI::Platypus#alignof method
  - Added FFI::Platypus::Record module
  - Added fixed length strings example: string(10)
  - Added ro and rw trait for strings

0.20      2015-02-05 14:06:11 -0500
  - Added optional wrapper argument to FFI::Platypus#attach
    and FFI::Platypus::Declare#attach
  - Added FFI::Platypus#find_lib method
  - FFI::CheckLib is now a runtime requirement for Platypus
  - Bumped Alien::FFI requirement to 0.06

0.19      2015-02-03 13:34:53 -0500
  - Accept additional extensions, in addition to dlext
    Example: on OS X both .bundle and .dylib can be used
    Example: although arguably wrong, on cygwin sometimes .so is used
  - Added Module::Build::FFI->ffi_dlext class method

0.18      2015-01-30 15:22:07 -0500
  - Improved support for C++ in Module::Build::FFI
  - Module::Build::FFI can now be subclassed to support foreign
    languages other than C and C++.  See Module::Build::FFI::Rust as an
    example.
  - Added a hook to allow different names for native types.  See
    FFI::Platypus::Lang::Rust for an example.
  - Added a hook to allow mangling of symbol (function) names.  See
    FFI::Platypus::Lang::CPP for an example with C++
  - Module::Build::FFI#ffi_include_dir can now be an array reference
  - Module::Build::FFI#ffi_source_dir can now be an array reference
  - Module::Build::FFI#ffi_libtest_dir can now be an array reference
  - Module::Build::FFI will build assembly source files (with .s
    extensions) in the libtest and ffi directories

0.17      2015-01-28 11:11:02 -0500
  - Allow integer and floating point type default to 0 when not provided
    without warning
  - You can now take the sizeof a custom type (it will be the size of
    the native type that is actually passed on the C argument stack).
  - Sizeof should be faster now as it doesn't look up the other meta
    information or create a hash to contain it
  - Added record type see FFI::Platypus::Type#Records
  - Added bool as a primitive type.

0.16      2015-01-23 17:31:00 -0500
  - Bumping Alien::FFI version requirement up to 0.04
    Thus indirectly Alien::Base to 0.07
    Believe this may fix a cpan testers failure that I am seeing

0.15      2015-01-23 16:46:27 -0500
  - add FFI::Platypus#ignore_not_found attribute
  - add FFI::Platypus#package method
  - Module::Build::FFI was moved into this distribution
    (formerly distributed as part of FFI-Util)
  - added aliases: uchar, ushort, uint and ulong

0.14      2015-01-22 08:19:42 -0500
  - Fixed some broken links in the documentation

0.12      2015-01-21 23:22:16 -0500
  - First CPAN release
  - Improved documentation
  - Functionally identically to 0.11

0.11      2015-01-21 16:33:58 -0500
  - Release candidate 2
  - arguments are available during custom return type even when
    platform does not support alloca
  - More documentation and examples
  - FFI::Platypus::API now use prototypes so you can skip the ()

0.10      2015-01-20 04:06:17 -0500
  - Release candidate 1
  - Added custom Types API (see FFI::Platypus::API)
  - Added String Pointer custom type (FFI::Platypus::Type::StringPointer)
  - Added Pointer / Size Buffer custom type (FFI::Platypus::Type::PointerSizeBuffer)

0.09      2015-01-19 03:01:48 -0500
  - Third beta
  - moved cast and sizeof from FFI::Platypus::Memory
    into FFI::Platypus methods.
  - cast and size of functions for FFI::Platypus::Declare
  - attach_cast for faster casting
  - renamed FFI::Platypus::Declare#function to
    FFI::Platypus::Declare#attach to more closely match
    the OO interface
  - adjusted custom type interface
    - renamed ffi_to_perl native_to_perl
    - renamed perl_to_ffi perl_to_native
    - type argument is now part of the hash and is called
      native_type

0.08      2015-01-16 10:55:14 -0500
  - Second beta
  - add FFI::Platypus::Buffer
    stole the buffer functions from FFI::Util
    can do this with cast, but cast is slow
  - Fixed bug where cast didn't work with closures.
  - closure data now free'd when it the closure
    goes out of scope (GH#4)

0.07      2015-01-15 18:53:45 -0500
  - First (mostly complete) beta
  - workaround some issues with closures
  - much more comprehensive documentation

0.06      2015-01-14 17:13:57 -0500
  - fix typo in last version that broke 32 bit Perls.  oops.

0.05      2015-01-14 17:04:25 -0500
  - Forth (and mostly complete) alpha
  - custom types written in Perl are supported.
  - bug fixes for 32 bit Perls (with compilers that support int64_t)

0.04      2015-01-13 11:14:54 -0500
  - Third (and incomplete) alpha
  - all basic types supported everywhere
  - closures do not support non basic types or returning strings from a closure

0.03      2015-01-09 15:40:14 -0500
  - Second (and incomplete) alpha
  - closure support added (only integer arguments implmented).
  - memory leak related to closures will be fixed in the next alpha.

0.02      2015-01-07 17:40:35 -0500
  - Early (and incomplete) alpha

0.01      2015-01-07 17:21:27 -0500
  - Original (and incompatible) prototype
