This is all Win32/ActivePerl stuff, please ignore if you're not a fellow Windows sufferer.

I've been thinking about something which would require creating a DLL which would run some Perl code and also provide the Perl code with some extra functions.

The idea behind this is to allow me to write PalmOS conduits in Perl. I know I could use XS to write wrappers around the Perl conduit API but I'm not so sure if it's possible to have Perl embedded in a DLL.

Basically, the DLL has a few entry points called by Palm's HotSync program. These should trigger the loading/execution of the Perl program, which then uses the HotSync API wrapper functions to do all the synchronisation.

Hope this makes sense to other people.

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Kevin O'Rourke

In reply to Embedding Perl in a DLL by kevin_i_orourke

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