cc -o test test.c -Wall `perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ccopts -e ldopts`

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Argument "5,00503" isn't numeric in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/Config.pm line 7.

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/*test.c*/

#include <EXTERN.h>               /* from the Perl distribution     */
#include <perl.h>                 /* from the Perl distribution     */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>

static PerlInterpreter *my_perl;  /***    The Perl interpreter    ***/

static char *perl_args[] = { "", "-e", "0", "-w" };
static char perl_script[] = {
  "use IO::Socket;\n" 
  "my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET or die qq/Can't create socket!/;\n"
  "print qq/Done\n/;"
};
 
extern void xs_init _((void));
extern void boot_DynaLoader _((CV * cv));
void
xs_init ()
{
	char *file = __FILE__;
	/* this allows using dynamicaly loaded modules... see
	   perlembed manpage*/
	newXS ("DynaLoader::boot_DynaLoader", boot_DynaLoader, file);
}


int main(int argc, char **argv, char **env)
{

  setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
  fprintf(stderr,"Locale value for NUMERIC is %s\n",setlocale(LC_NUMERIC,NULL));  my_perl = perl_alloc();
  perl_construct(my_perl);
  perl_parse(my_perl, xs_init, 4, perl_args, (char **)NULL);
  perl_eval_pv(perl_script,(I32) NULL);
  perl_destruct(my_perl);
  perl_free(my_perl);
  exit(0);
}