Bottomline is: vanilla XS with just a simple call to your C function which is implemented in its own C file in order to avoid any XS idioms and/or Perl header name clashes

Yes - that's fairly straightforward in the usual XS environment.
Has the same capability not been ported to Inline::C ? (I certainly don't know how to do it in Inline::C, but I've never even wondered about it before.)
I wondered whether Inline::C's "autowrap" feature might be useful here, but it seems geared towards accessing C libraries rather than C source code.

Anyway ... is that the issue that has prompted this thread ?
I couldn't really work out what the issue was, and I'm still not too sure.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^2: Better way to force Inline to use compiled binary instead of C source? by syphilis
in thread Better way to force Inline to use compiled binary instead of C source? by vr

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