It's ok to create a module that uses Inline::C for part of its implementation. To the outside world it looks like any other module.

I've done it like this for example: 

package ABC::DEF::G;
...
# Preloaded methods go here.

use Inline CPP => Config =>
   INC => '-I/usr/X11R6/include/',
   LIBS => '-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11',
   CLEAN_AFTER_BUILD => 0;
use Inline CPP => <<'END';

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What you may not know is that the extension will be rebuilt for every perl program that uses the module, in the directory where the program is run. If you want real compiled-once-and-installed extensions you have to bite the bullet and use XS.

Update: Recompilation will happen for the Inline::CPP example I show here, but it is possible to make the extension behave more like a true module by proper use of VERSION, NAME, and Inline::MakeMaker, as documented in Writing Modules with Inline.

As for exporting a symbol from the extension as you try to do, I doubt that will work. Why not wrap the call in a perl routine and just export that?

Thanks to Fletch and dbp for corrections.

In reply to Re: creating module for Inline C by tall_man
in thread creating module for Inline C by Anonymous Monk

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