Hi ! Is there a nice way to catch compile/parse errors from a perl script in embedded perl ? the perl script is in a string, I want to see if it compiles correctly and in the case there are errors, make them available to the embedding application. I tried something similar to 
// code contains the perl code (char *)
// errmsg should be filled with the compile erros
PerlInterpreter *myPerlCompile; /*** The Perl interpreter ***/
char *largv[] = { "", "-c", "-e", code, NULL };
int largc=4;
int errFnd;
initPerlInterp();
myPerlCompile = perl_alloc();
perl_construct(myPerlCompile);
//PL_exit_flags |= PERL_EXIT_DESTRUCT_END;
errFnd=perl_parse(myPerlCompile, xs_init, largc, largv, (char **)NULL)
+;
sprintf(errmsg, "%s", SvPV_nolen(ERRSV));

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but this does not work (errFnd is filled in case of errors, but errmsg stays empty) I got the impression that there certainly is a better approach for this... thanx !

In reply to embedded perl: check for compile errors without executing by lorius

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