I'm wondering if it's a design defect of Inline::C that it needs to runtime compile the code

I don't really see it that way. It only needs to "runtime compile the code" the first time the code is run. Subsequent runnings of the code simply load what was compiled the first time ... no need to re-compile it. In that way it's no different to a perl extension - ie it needs to be compiled only once.

This is making a big assumption, that your target machine has a working C compiler

This statement implies to me that you're thinking Inline::C will work without a C compiler - which is not the case. (Sorry ... perhaps you meant something entirely different.)

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^2: Making Inline::C modules fit for CPAN by syphilis
in thread Making Inline::C modules fit for CPAN by tsee

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