---
name: "Alien::Build::Manual"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "perl-alien-build"
version: "2.88-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Alien::Build::Manual"
---

# Alien::Build::Manual(3pm)

The Alien::Build Manual

## NAME

Alien::Build::Manual - The Alien::Build Manual

## VERSION

version 2.88

## SYNOPSIS

```
 perldoc Alien::Build::Manual::Alien
 perldoc Alien::Build::Manual::AlienAuthor
 perldoc Alien::Build::Manual::AlienUser
 perldoc Alien::Build::Manual::Contributing
 perldoc Alien::Build::Manual::FAQ
 perldoc Alien::Build::Manual::PluginAuthor
```

## DESCRIPTION

Alien::Build comes with a number of manuals that are useful depending on how you are using Alien.

- Alien::Build::Manual::Alien

  General alien author documentation.

- Alien::Build::Manual::AlienAuthor

  Alien author documentation.

- Alien::Build::Manual::AlienUser

  Alien user documentation.

- Alien::Build::Manual::Contributing

  Overly-detailed contributing guide.

- Alien::Build::Manual::FAQ

  Frequently Asked Questions about Alien::Build.

- Alien::Build::Manual::PluginAuthor

  Alien::Build plugin author documentation — or how to extend Alien::Build with the plugin system.

- Alien::Build::Manual::Security

  Documents some of the challenges and configuration tools related to security of Aliens.

## SEE ALSO

- Alien::Base

  - Alien::Build

  - alienfile

  ## AUTHOR

Author: Graham Ollis \<plicease@cpan.org\>

Contributors:

Diab Jerius (DJERIUS)

Roy Storey (KIWIROY)

Ilya Pavlov

David Mertens (run4flat)

Mark Nunberg (mordy, mnunberg)

Christian Walde (Mithaldu)

Brian Wightman (MidLifeXis)

Zaki Mughal (zmughal)

mohawk (mohawk2, ETJ)

Vikas N Kumar (vikasnkumar)

Flavio Poletti (polettix)

Salvador Fandiño (salva)

Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar)

Pavel Shaydo (zwon, trinitum)

Kang-min Liu (劉康民, gugod)

Nicholas Shipp (nshp)

Juan Julián Merelo Guervós (JJ)

Joel Berger (JBERGER)

Petr Písař (ppisar)

Lance Wicks (LANCEW)

Ahmad Fatoum (a3f, ATHREEF)

José Joaquín Atria (JJATRIA)

Duke Leto (LETO)

Shoichi Kaji (SKAJI)

Shawn Laffan (SLAFFAN)

Paul Evans (leonerd, PEVANS)

Håkon Hægland (hakonhagland, HAKONH)

nick nauwelaerts (INPHOBIA)

Florian Weimer

Marcel Telka (mtelka)

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011-2022 by Graham Ollis.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.