Understanding is paradigmatic, as I think I know something, perl changes that. It is with humility in my heart, and thankfulness towards those who have helped me this far, that I pose the silly question that is at the core of my struggle today. I was told, and have come to discover, that creating typemaps for an XS module was where the real difficulty lies. I have created a few of the functions, and the XS module is compiling and linking the vendor libs correctly (making a static perl fixed all problems, thanks tye, adam and others for a lot of good advice) Through no lack of searching, and a large enough lack of time to preclude the entire reading and absorbing of perlguts, I am unable to create a typemap that simply converts a variable of type struct* into a hash with keys named samewise, and vice versa. Can someone direct me to the place where I discover the purposes of $var and $arg? That does sound like the manpage I need. Any page I've found so far dealing with the typemap has assumed this was known. This isn't really a real question.. If anyone has wisdom, URL's, warnings, or some way to fit man perlguts into a not yet entirely conditioned head, I'm asking for your help. Thanks again, cb921.

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