I searched and searched to no avail. it is possible that this is a C problem, though if i compile the C code on its own (slightly modified, of course, it works. My perl also worked before i tried adding any C. my code looks like this: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Compress::Zlib;
use Devel::Size qw(size total_size);
#use HTML::SimpleParse;

use Inline C => <<END_C;
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

#include "./parser.h"


char* MyParser(char *url, char* page)
{
        char *pool;
        int len;
        int ret;

        len = strlen(page);

//      page = (char*)malloc(len);

        pool = (char*)malloc(2*len+1);

        // parsing page
        ret = parser(url, page, pool, 2*len+1);


        if(ret > 0)
                return pool;
        free(pool);
}




END_C

# bunch of perl code

$x = MyParser($y)

#more perl code

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when I try to run i get the error: /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: 
/data/c6/***/_Inline/lib/auto/getandParseWithC_pl_e94c/getandParseWith
+C_pl_e94c.so: undefined symbol: parser

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has anyone seen this before or could someone please offer some pointers? I have been trying to get this to work all night :)

In reply to Help with Inline C by downer

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