C structures ?

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

Folks,

Is there a way (or many !) to use the definition of structures in C header files in a Perl program ? The idea is to use already-defined structures from a previous project while saving - if possible - time re-writing them from scratch in Perl.

Thanks.

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Re: C structures ? by derby (Abbot) on Dec 13, 2005 at 18:49 UTC
Why stop at the structures? If you have a decent library to go with the structures, use it also. <blatant_xp_grasp>Check out my Inline::C tutorial that uses the c services lib</blatant_xp_grasp>. -derby	[reply]
Re: C structures ? by CountOrlok (Friar) on Dec 13, 2005 at 17:51 UTC
Maybe h2ph is the answer to your prayers. (man h2ph) -imran	[reply]
Re: C structures ? by samtregar (Abbot) on Dec 13, 2005 at 19:24 UTC
While Inline::C may help you'll probably have to write some interface code if you have large and/or complex structures. SWIG may be a better tool for this job since it has lots of automated interface generation built-in and can handle just about any legal C structure. I used it when I was working on Coagula and it was a real champ. -sam	[reply]