I have posted this question to the inline mailing list, but haven't seen any response. I thought I would try my fellow monks to see if they could offer a clue.

I have been playing with Inline::C, trying to wrap an API so I could access it via perl. I have read the docs for Inline::C and explored the cookbook enough to figure out what I needed to do. I have been also able to get the examples contained within the cookbook working.

I wrote my code and, after getting rid of several stupid typos ( I am still trying to convince my fingers to stop adding a "$" in front of variable names :), the code compiled but returned an error. I worked at it for a little while and then decided to extract the C code, write a simple main() and see what happened.

It compiled, ran and returned without the error.

I am now very confused. I am dead certain I have missed something very silly - this is the first time I have tried to use Inline and my three previous attempts at using XS all failed

This is the code: 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Inline C => Config =>
        LIBS => "-lpdadminapi",
        PREFIX => 'my_',
        INC  => "-I/usr/include/PolicyDirector";
use Inline C => << 'END_C';

#include <ivadminapi.h>
/* So named in case there is some conflict of which I am unaware
 */
int my_create_context( char* user, char* passwd ) {
    ivadmin_context ctx;
    ivadmin_response rsp;
    unsigned long status;
    int i;

    printf("Establising context as %s (%s)\n", user,
                           passwd );
/* This is the call that is failing */
    status = ivadmin_context_createdefault(user,passwd,&ctx,&rsp);

    if ( ivadmin_response_getok(rsp) ) {
    printf("ivadmin_context_createdefault succeeded\n" );
    }
    else {
    for(i=0; i<ivadmin_response_getcount(rsp);i++) {
        printf( "ivadmin_context_createdefault : (%d) %s\n",
        ivadmin_response_getcode( rsp, i ),
        ivadmin_response_getmessage( rsp, i ) );
    }
    }
    ivadmin_free( rsp );
    return status;
}
END_C

my ( $foo, $user, $passwd );

$user = 'xxxxxxxx';
$passwd = 'xxxxxxxx';

$foo = create_context( $user, $passwd );

print "status = $foo\n";

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And this is the main() I wrote to test the C code directly: 
int main() {
    int stat;

    stat = create_context("xxxxxxxx", "xxxxxxxx" );
    printf( "Stat = %d\n", stat );

    return 0;
}

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If anybody could give me a pointer, I would appreciate it to no end. Again, I am quite certain this is my mistake but I really have no idea how to approach it.

Thanks,
mikfire

In reply to Inline::C code doesn't work, but the C code does by mikfire

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