I had assumed, perhaps wrongly, that the XS mechanism allows Perl to be connected to any compiled language, at least in theory...

Unfortunately not. As someone already mentioned, it has the capability to play nice with C++ code (wiringPi is in fact C++ based), but there are a lot of gotchas that can prevent it from working, and often requires overriding/rewriting the functions that don't work in pure C before they can be presented through the Perl library.

I also write a fair amount of C# code (berrybrew would be my most complex example), but wrapping something like that with XS would be an impossible, futile, headdesking task.

In reply to Re^3: XS Modules - why and when? by stevieb
in thread XS Modules - why and when? by Bod

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