I thought I'd have a crack at demoing how char *[] might hang together. So first I downloaded your code, then realised I didn't have Inline or Inline::C installed, so I set about doing that using cpanm. The Inline install was quick and trouble free. The Inline::C install however has reached:

...
Building and testing Tie-IxHash-1.23 ... OK
Successfully installed Tie-IxHash-1.23
Building and testing Pegex-0.75 ... OK
Successfully installed Pegex-0.75
--> Working on Win32::Mutex
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/C/CJ/CJM/Win32-IPC-1.11.tar.gz
+ ... OK
Configuring Win32-IPC-1.11 ... OK
Building and testing Win32-IPC-1.11 ... OK
Successfully installed Win32-IPC-1.11
Building and testing Inline-C-0.82 ...

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and has been sitting there for the last half hour with no apparent progress. This is on Windows 10 and Strawberry Perl 5.32.1:

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 32 subversion 1) configuration
+:

  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32
    osvers=10.0.19042.746
    archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-64int
    uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.32.1.1 #1 Sun Jan 24 12:17:47 2021 
+i386'

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Ideas?

Optimising for fewest key strokes only makes sense transmitting to Pluto or beyond

In reply to Re^7: Perl XS binding to a struct with an array of chars* by GrandFather
in thread Perl XS binding to a struct with an array of chars* by MaxPerl

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