How To Create a PERL Binding?

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Re: How To Create a PERL Binding? by friedo (Prior) on May 25, 2007 at 02:00 UTC
If you don't want to learn the ins and outs of XS, Inline::C is a pretty good place to start. It handles most of the magic for you so you can concentrate on writing relatively simple wrappers for your C functions.	[reply]
Re^2: How To Create a PERL Binding? by blazar (Canon) on May 25, 2007 at 09:46 UTC
If you don't want to learn the ins and outs of XS, Inline::C is a pretty good place to start. Since he mentions C++, also Inline::CPP. And another interesting module which I discovered quite recently is InlineX::XS which "Auto-converts Inline::C based modules to XS".	[reply]
Re: How To Create a PERL Binding? by Joost (Canon) on May 25, 2007 at 11:10 UTC
The "standard" way to do that is to use XS (see also perxstut). There are also the easier to use Inline modules that support multiple extension languages, and SWIG, which allows you to write C/C++ extension for multiple languages. For a good introduction to this subject I recommend Extending and Embedding Perl "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]