First of all, i have to admit that i feel that i should know this already, but i just don't.

Is it possible to add external cpp/h files when using Inline::CPP? I only need XS bindings for the stuff i'm inlining, the rest only needs to be accesible through the inlined CPP code.

Here is the simplest example i could tink of.

test.pl 
use Inline CPP;

for(1..3) {
    print "Perfect random number: ", cast_die(), "\n";
}
 
__END__
__CPP__

#include "xkcd.h"
 
int cast_die() {
    int rolled = xkcd_dice_roll();
    return rolled;
}

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xkcd.h
#ifndef XKCD_DICE
#define XKCD_DICE

// See https://xkcd.com/221/ for why this is absolutely perfect
#define FAIRLY_GENERATED_RANDOM_NUMBER 4

int xkcd_dice_roll();

#endif

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xkcd.cpp
#include "xkcd.h"

int xkcd_dice_roll() {
    return FAIRLY_GENERATED_RANDOM_NUMBER;
}

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Is something like this even possible with Inline::CPP?

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In reply to External (extra) files when using Inline::CPP by cavac

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