Fellow Monks,

There has to be a better way to specify multiple C source files for use with Inline::C module. In my case, the C source files, header files, and the library are in the same directory as the Perl script. Here's what I am currently forced to do:

my $relSourcePath;
my $inlineCFile1;
my $inlineCFile2;
my $inlineBuildDir;
my $libDir;
my $incDir;
BEGIN {
    # this file is in the same directory as the rest of the sources
    $relSourcePath = File::Spec->rel2abs(dirname($0));
    die "\nInstall path must not have spaces.\n\n" if $relSourcePath =
+~ /\s/;

    # Need to build the path to the Inline C file here, so that we cou
+ld
    # reference it below
    my @dirs = ();
    push @dirs, $relSourcePath;
    $inlineCFile1 = File::Spec->catfile(@dirs, "file_a.c");
    $inlineCFile2 = File::Spec->catfile(@dirs, "file_b.c");
    push @dirs, ".Inline";
    $inlineBuildDir = File::Spec->catdir(@dirs);
    pop @dirs;
    $libDir = File::Spec->catdir(@dirs);
    $incDir = File::Spec->catdir(@dirs);
}

use Inline (
    C => Config => 
            LIBS      => "-L$libDir -lldv32",
            INC       => "-I$incDir",
            DIRECTORY => $inlineBuildDir,
);

use Inline C => "$inlineCFile1";
use Inline C => "$inlineCFile2";

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Is there a better way?

In reply to Inline::C with multiple *.c by gri6507

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