Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am trying to call a C++ shared object function from Perl. Can I do such a thing? If you can help, I would appreciate it greatly. -Rupert mtrupe@angelfire.com

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Re: Rupert
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 01, 2000 at 23:49 UTC
    You can, but, as with many things in Perl, it's not pretty. See the XS documentation (Perl.com is a good place to start). A series of articles in Perlmonth.com also describes XS in a somewhat more palatable fashion (not that that means much, though).