Embedding Perl in Visual C++

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

I know.

This is a little sad, but I am using MS Visual C++ at work, because I must use it.
I am using Perl also, though, and it saves me lots of time. The only thing that I would like to do is to be able to embed Perl directly inside my C++ program.

I know that there are references about the subject (I am just coming back from the PerlMonk library), but I have not been able to find anything related to VC++. And we all know that VC++ is a compiler different from gcc.
So, my question should maybe rather be "Has anybody already embeded Perl code inside a VC++ project?".

Thanks in advance for the Wisdom that I will find.

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Re: Embedding Perl in Visual C++ by buzzcutbuddha (Chaplain) on Jul 05, 2000 at 16:07 UTC
Last month's Visual C++ Developers Journal had an article on embedding Perl in Visual C++. If you work with other VC++ developers, I would suggest asking one of them to lend you the magazine, barring that, I would be happy to photocopy the article for you and mail it to you. In the meantime, I will see if I can lift the code from their website and post it here for all to peruse. HTH, Maurice Update: The code associated with the article is several pieces long, and I would prefer not to post it, but I would be happy to email it to whoever would like it. It's in zip format, so if you don't have Zip, I'll put it into a Self-Extractor for you, or, I can unzip and email the individual pieces, just let me know!	[reply]
RE: Re: Embedding Perl in Visual C++ by Anonymous Monk on Jul 05, 2000 at 17:50 UTC
Hi, If you get the photocopy,please mail it to me too. mailto:utility@cmmail.com Thank you.	[reply]
RE: Re: Embedding Perl in Visual C++ by gaggio (Friar) on Jul 05, 2000 at 17:34 UTC
This would be awesome. Let me know if you find it. I'll try to find it also.	[reply]
RE: RE: Re: Embedding Perl in Visual C++ by gaggio (Friar) on Jul 05, 2000 at 20:05 UTC
Well, I did not find anything on the VCDJ website. I would be really pleased to get that article mailed then. Let me know how you think we will do that. Thanks a lot for your input.	[reply]
Re: Embedding Perl in Visual C++ by vkonovalov (Monk) on Jul 05, 2000 at 12:11 UTC
MSVC++ can compile perl from source code, as ActiveState do in their Perl distribution. There should be no problem embedding Perl, and you can do this two different ways - in a standard way and second, deprecated way, via PERL_OBJECT. There is nothing bad using MSVC++. It producess fastest code nowadays for Win32.	[reply]
RE: Re: Embedding Perl in Visual C++ by Cybercosis (Monk) on Jul 05, 2000 at 20:31 UTC
Say what?? MSVC++ is horrible. It does annoying things like assigning the same memory address to a loop control variable and the last element of an array. By my experience, CodeWarrior produces MUCH faster code.	[reply]
RE: Embedding Perl in Visual C++ by Cybercosis (Monk) on Jul 05, 2000 at 10:45 UTC
Indeed, the MSVC++ compiler couldn't even be said to be ANSI compliant (we'll not get into the issues I've had with variable addresses... shudder) Probably your best bet would be to embed the perl interpreter in your program, ala perlman::perlembed. Hope this helps! ~Cybercosis	[reply]