I tried this. I was curious.
I downloaded the module from cpan.
cpan> install Inline::C
during install it asked me for my compiler.
i told it 'cc'. It completed install.
Got a sample from here, CPAN Inline::C
and added a Content-type header. I noticed that 'use strict;' did
not work with this module on my RHL6.2.8.
Besides that, the following test script
worked great in the shell and a browser.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
##use strict;
use Inline C;
greet('Content-type:text/html');
greet('Hello from c via CGI');
__END__
__C__
void greet(SV* sv_name) {
printf("%s\n\n", SvPV(sv_name, PL_na));
}

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Here's the output from my error logs when strict was on.
Bareword "C" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at c.pl line 3.
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at c.pl line 3.

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The CPAN link above has a lot of information about useage.
I tried your original .so example but no dice.
But the CPAN link talks about linking your .so,
read more cause i don't know squat.
Was fun to try though. BTW i did this in perl5.005

In reply to Re: Need a Help - calling C program from Perl by true
in thread Need a Help - calling C program from Perl by Anonymous Monk

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