Hey there,

I'm trying to use perlxs to call a proprietry C library from my perl scripts.
I've gone through the tutorial and such, I've successfully got the extension compiling and I can use it in my perl script and even call a couple of the functions i've already defined in the .xs file.

The problem, however, is I can't figure out how to return a variable from one of the functions. Every way I define it in the .xs file either doesn't compile, or compiles and segfaults when i run the perl script.

The C excerpt I use to call this function is as follows :

    char sError[BUFFLEN];
    QAErrorMessage(error_code, sError, BUFFLEN);

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BUFFLEN being defined as 256 or whatever.
It's supposed to return a nice, helpful error message in sError...

The function doesn't seem to like being called with a char *, and I have no idea how to make xs return the sError to perl as a normal scalar.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated

In reply to Perlxs help please by mitchm

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