Hi all.

I decided it was time to explore the Inline::C module so I copied 'n pasted this example from a web site this afternoon in an attempt to see how it worked. When I ran this code: 


 use Inline C;
 use warnings;

 greet('Ingy');
 greet(42);
 __END__
 __C__
 void greet(char* name) 
 {
   printf("Hello %s!\n", name);
 }

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I received this error: 

C:\perl>perl p1.pl
File creation error
File creation error
File creation error
Bad command or file name
Bad command or file name
Can't create Inline validation file C:/perl/_Inline/lib/auto/p1_pl_f75
+5/p1_pl_f7
55.inl at blib\lib\Inline.pm (autosplit into blib\lib\auto\Inline\writ
+e_inl_file
.al) line 849.
INIT failed--call queue aborted.

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Note: I couldn't 'use strict' because the author had included the line __C__ in the code. I removed it, used strict, ran the code again but the error was the same.

Any suggestions?
I have never used XS so if that is the missing step, feel free to show me ( with a small example perhaps? ) how I would do that.

Thanks in advance,

-Katie.

edited: Sun Jan 5 17:41:31 2003 by jeffa - added <readmore> tag

In reply to Inline::C error. by DigitalKitty

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