Perl wrappers for C++ classes

flymolo42 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'd like to create Perl binding for vtk.
It is written in c++. It has wrappers for tcl,python, and java.
I know about xs but the docs I read said it has problems with c++.
I'd like to produce something that handles double* calls unlike PerlVTK. Any helpful URLs?

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Re: Perl wrappers for C++ classes by cheshirecat (Sexton) on Dec 05, 2001 at 23:26 UTC
You could try SWIG www.swig.org Cheers Cheshire Cat :)	[reply]
Re: Perl wrappers for C++ classes by miyagawa (Chaplain) on Dec 05, 2001 at 23:20 UTC
Inline::CPP? -- Tatsuhiko Miyagawa miyagawa@cpan.org	[reply]
Re: Perl wrappers for C++ classes by Beatnik (Parson) on Dec 12, 2001 at 12:53 UTC
John Keiser wrote Gluing C++ And Perl Together. HTH. Greetz Beatnik ... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.	[reply]
Re: Perl wrappers for C++ classes by mortis (Pilgrim) on Dec 06, 2001 at 19:49 UTC
It will end up being more work, but you could create C wrapper functions for the C++ calls (casting the C++ objects to a void* or something similar) and then make the C functions available through XS, which should be simpler than trying to make C++ code directly available. If you write your code as a perl object (module), you can store the C++ object (the void*) in the perl object, that way each of the C XS/wrapper functions would have access to the C++ object through $self which would allow you to pass it through to the C++ code. Does this make sense? HTH Kyle	[reply]