I am trying to do an interpreter between perl and C (win32). The proplem is that none of the examples found at the www, perldoc and etc do not show how to pass a typedef structures from C to perl, manipulate the data, and then return the data back to the C. For example If defined structure in C is 
typedef struct {
  int   Msg;        
  short uid;         
  short LineType;     
  char  *Line;         // pointer to text
  char  Sound;         // 0 for no sound, otherwise sound #
  char *Cmd;           // String of command including !
  char OpOnly;         // Is the command for ops only?
  char *HelpFile;      // Help Filename for this command
  int  CmdID;          // CmdID - The bot core doesn't care about this
+,
} BOTMSG;

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I would love to see this stucture in perl like a HASH or OO. For example 
sub set_struct {
    xxxxx = @_; #  <-- ???
    $BOTMSG{Msg} = "1";
    $BOTMSG{uid} = "1024";
    $BOTMSG{LineType} = "100";
    $BOTMSG{Line} = "Hello World\n";
    $BOTMSG{Cmd} = "/!say";
    $BOTMSG{OpOnly} = "yes";
    $BOTMSG{HelpFile} = "C\tmp\help\help1.txt";
    $BOTMSG{CmdID} = "1234567890";
    return %BOTMSG;
};

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The given examples in Perlembed documentation only show how to pass a single pointer, an integer, or an string value but it do not say anything about passing complex structures and how to manipulate those in perl. I appreciate all help you can give me,
-jari-
jari@subspace.nu

In reply to Empedding perl into C - how to pass complex structures to the perl ? by Anonymous Monk

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