When you say it chugs along what you mean is that it fails to compile. For a start your calling syntax is just not going to work. Next your knowledge of C seems imperfect. A library is compiled binary code. To use it you need the headers and the library. You don't have that, you have the C headers and main source code. If you are goind to inline it you need the headers and then the main source inline.

When you want to link C code into Perl the main issue is basically type conversion, from the perl SV, AV or HV types, into C types and then back again. The main advantage of Inline::C is it will handle some simple type conversions for you automatically, but it only handles really simple ones. With XS you are expected to do it yourself.

Your error will probably be typemap/conversion related. You will also need to pass an array ref of your N dimensional coordinates and decant the values in your C. See Re: Using c executable in Perl Script for an example of how to do that.

cheers

tachyon

In reply to Re^3: Need Help with perlxstut by tachyon
in thread Need Help with perlxstut by ketema

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