Help - XS layer

piyush.shourie has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,

I am writing the XS layer wherein I need to make some calls to the methods in a dll. All I am aware of is how to create XS layer if we have the C code.

However since I am using a third-party dll and dont have access to the C code, I need to make calls to the dll itself in my XS file.

Any pointers to invoking dll methods through XS layer will be of immense help.

Thanks,
Piyush

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Re: Help - XS layer by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Dec 23, 2004 at 11:56 UTC
In some circumstances it might be easier to use the Win32::API module to access the functions in a DLL rather than creating an XS layer, however as long as you have the appropriate header files describing the interface then writing XS code to do access a DLL is no different than that for using a static C library.<?p> /J\	[reply]
Re: Help - XS layer by Anonymous Monk on Dec 23, 2004 at 10:41 UTC
That is straight c/c++ programming	[reply]
Re: Help - XS layer by dpavlin (Friar) on Dec 24, 2004 at 12:12 UTC
You might be interested in chromatic's P5NCI that allows you to use shared libraries from Perl without writing XS code. I had some luck with it, but my expirience is Unix-based. YMMV 2share!2flame...	[reply]