ExtUtils::Typemaps::Cmd(3p)

ExtUtils::Typemaps::Cmd3p

Quick commands for handling typemaps

Usage

From XS:

  INCLUDE_COMMAND: $^X -MExtUtils::Typemaps::Cmd \
                   -e "print embeddable_typemap(q{Excommunicated})"

Loads "ExtUtils::Typemaps::Excommunicated", instantiates an object, and dumps it as an embeddable typemap for use directly in your XS file.

Overview

This is a helper module for ExtUtils::Typemaps for quick one-liners, specifically for inclusion of shared typemaps that live on CPAN into an XS file (see SYNOPSIS).

For this reason, the following functions are exported by default:

Exported functions

embeddable_typemap

Given a list of identifiers, "embeddable_typemap" tries to load typemaps from a file of the given name(s), or from a module that is an "ExtUtils::Typemaps" subclass.

Returns a string representation of the merged typemaps that can be included verbatim into XS. Example:

  print embeddable_typemap(
    "Excommunicated", "ExtUtils::Typemaps::Basic", "./typemap"
  );

This will try to load a module "ExtUtils::Typemaps::Excommunicated" and use it as an "ExtUtils::Typemaps" subclass. If that fails, it'll try loading "Excommunicated" as a module, if that fails, it'll try to read a file called Excommunicated. It'll work similarly for the second argument, but the third will be loaded as a file first.

After loading all typemap files or modules, it will merge them in the specified order and dump the result as an embeddable typemap.

Releases

28 releases since OpenBSD 5.4; the text changed 19 times.

  1. 5.4–5.5
  2. 5.6
  3. 5.7
  4. 5.8–5.9
  5. 6.0
  6. 6.1
  7. 6.2
  8. 6.3–6.4
  9. 6.5
  10. 6.6
  11. 6.7
  12. 6.8
  13. 6.9–7.2
  14. 7.3
  15. 7.4
  16. 7.5
  17. 7.6
  18. 7.7–7.8
  19. 7.9
  20. 8.0

Author

Steffen Mueller "<[email protected]">

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.