Image::XFace

This is a very simple interface to the libcompface library used for encoding and decoding `X-Face' images used in email headers.

Many versions of libcompface are broken and don't contain the compface function. This is fine if you don't want to create X-Face data, less so otherwise. I fixed this in faces-1.6.1 with the following patch:

diff -urN faces-orig/compface/Makefile faces/compface/Makefile

--- faces-orig/compface/Makefile        Thu Oct 24 03:28:06 1991
+++ faces/compface/Makefile     Sun Feb 17 20:14:35 2002
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 LIBRARY                = $(LIBDIR)/$(LIBNAME)
 MAN1DIR                = $(MANDIR)/man1
 MAN3DIR                = $(MANDIR)/man3
-OBJECTS                = arith.o file.o compress.o gen.o uncompface.o
+OBJECTS                = arith.o file.o compress.o gen.o uncompface.o compface.o
 SOURCES                = compface.c uncompface.o arith.c file.c compress.c gen.c \
                  cmain.c uncmain.c
 HDRS           = compface.h data.h
diff -urN faces-orig/compface/compface.c faces/compface/compface.c
--- faces-orig/compface/compface.c      Wed Jun 19 07:29:12 1991

+++ faces/compface/compface.c Sun Feb 17 22:59:49 2002 @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@

• to me, then an attempt will be made to fix them. /

-#define MAIN
+/ #define MAIN */

#include "compface.h"

--- patch ends

The interface code was written by SWIG, because I am too lazy to write XS code myself. However, I have modified the results of the SWIG stuff, so you can't simply re-run it from the interface definition in swig/. In particular, the version of SWIG I used didn't like to make modules in subdirectories and I couldn't see a nice way to combine perl and C code in the generated pm file. So I just cobbled it together manually.