I tried that, and while I did not get an error message, I also did not get my custom functions. The empty result was the same as when I didn't have the .pm file in the directory where the program started.

It seems that Perl isn't executing the .pm file directly as Perl code, at least not in the main interpreter namespace, but is rather pulling it in as part of the module loading/initialization process. I.E. the eval_pv() method that I tried would be akin to writing a perl script and beginning it with: (this is the .pm file that SWIG generated) 

package DynTrans;
require Exporter;
@ISA = qw(Exporter);
package DynTrans;
boot_DynTrans();
package DynTrans;
@EXPORT = qw( GetTableName GetAction );
.
.
.
User script here ...

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This wouldn't work, because we aren't trying to define the DynTrans package in the perl script, but rather we want to use DynTrans; to do other work.

Does this make sense?

In reply to Re^2: Extending an embedded Perl interpreter without a .pm file by ShodadVenturi
in thread Extending an embedded Perl interpreter without a .pm file by ShodadVenturi

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