plbindgen creates perl cpan distributions for Rust libraries that expose a public C API. It uses syn perform a very rudimentary parse of the Rust source code to extract the public C API. It then uses FFI::Platypus and FFI::Platypus::Lang::Rust expose that C API to Perl.

plbindgen is highly opinionated and is primarily designed to automate the process of writing Platypus bindings to rust, in particular for Rust::mysql.

If this description still doesn't make sense, this is basically a h2xs for rust, that you will probably enjoy using a lot more than h2xs.

SYNOPSIS

plbindgen -n Rust::mysql

cd Rust-mysql
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

USAGE

plbindgen --help

plbindgen - Generate Perl bindings for Rust code

This tool generates Perl bindings for Rust code using FFI::Platypus.

Usage: plbindgen [OPTIONS] --name <NAME>

Options:
  -n, --name <NAME>
          This serves as the base package for the generated Perl module

      --distname <DISTNAME>
          The name of the distribution, typically similar to the name but with dashes instead of colons

      --module-file <MODULE_FILE>
          The path to the main perl module file, relative to the root of the perl distribution

      --crate-file <CRATE_FILE>
          Path to the Rust crate file, relative to the root of the perl distribution
          
          [default: ffi/src/lib.rs]

      --cargo-toml <CARGO_TOML>
          Path to the Cargo.toml file for the Rust crate, relative to the root of the perl distribution
          
          [default: ffi/Cargo.toml]

  -h, --help
          Print help (see a summary with '-h')