Hi monks!

I'm going to write some kind of drawing library using Cairo, and I want to create a Perl wrapper for my lib. It would have some method functions like this:

class MyPage
{
    MyPage(cairo_t* context);
}

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In which, functions of my code have arguments of Cairo's type. I know there's already a Cairo wrapper for perl in CPAN, so I want to have my wrapped code can work like this:

use Cairo;
use MyLib;

......
my $context = Cairo::Context->create(...);
my $page = MyLib::MyPage->new($context);

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However, to achieve this, the XS code of mine must have the knowledge of how Cairo's XS code do the wrap. As I'm not experienced on XS, I need some suggests on it. Thanks for a lot!!

In addition, I noticed that SWIG is another choice for wrapper creation. However Cairo is wrapped using XS, so maybe I have to use XS too?

In reply to How to let my XS module interact with existing XS module? by llancet

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