I know it's been asked before, and yes i have searched through the darkest corners of the internet and done my reading in every O'reilly "insert animal here" book i could find, but i could still use some extra wisdom to get me started. (please!)

My goal was to learn perl so that i could use it alongside c++ in a database management program im writing for myself. I managed to create a script that can organize XML data. I want to embed perl into a c++/Qt interface that can run my script (plus hopefully more soon) from the c++ code.

Is there an easy way to accomplish this? by easy i mean not having to delve into the internals of perl learn the API then create a C interface to exchange data with perl then get that C code to work with my c++? I started learning perl because i thought embedding into compiled languages was what interpreted languages did, and perl had CPAN (not to shabby :)) but i am suddenly feeling way over my head. any advice/tutorials or better, working sample code i could learn from?

- Thank you in advance

In reply to embedding perl in c++ by divitto

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