Maybe you could try Inline::CPP.

how would inline::cpp help me with embedding perl in an c++ project AND THEN calling some functions that where declared BY THE SAME c++ CODE THAT embedded the perl script from WITHIN the running and embedded perl code?

It doesn't matter which code embeds what. The only real difference between embedding perl in C and C in perl is that if you embed C code in perl you can use the standard perl interpreter to start everything, and otherwise you'll have to "manually" start the perl interpreter using a (short) bootstrap sequence in C.

Once you've done that, you can call into C and C++ functions from perl and vice versa regardless of how the startup procedure was executed.

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

You can look at the code produced by Inline::CPP to see how it calls CPP routines and how it compiles and links the code. In short, it is a way for you to generate your own examples that call your own code. But I agree that it will not produce an example of a C++ routine calling an embeded perl interpreter calling a C++ routine - sorry...

thank you for your answer but that does not explain how to call a function from perl that is defined in the c++ code that embedded the perl code ... i only found "How to export functions from C++ to embedded perl. Options" http://groups.google.com/group/perl.xs/browse_thread/thread/190893fecc6bdc52

I'm not exactly sure of your requirements - you would be better off to provide some simple/minimalist test program that demonstrates what you're attempting to achieve. (Since you have not yet worked out how to achieve what you're after, that test script would presumably not work - but if it gave us some hints regarding the essence of your aims, that might help.)

Here's a basic, contrived example of how the return values of C functions (namely, the foo() and bar() functions) could be fed into the embedded perl process. It's just a slight modification of the 'power.c' example from perlembed:

 
#include <EXTERN.h>
#include <perl.h>

static PerlInterpreter *my_perl;

static void
PerlPower(int a, int b)
{
  dSP;                           
  ENTER;                         
  SAVETMPS;                      
  PUSHMARK(SP);                  
  XPUSHs(sv_2mortal(newSViv(a)));
  XPUSHs(sv_2mortal(newSViv(b)));
  PUTBACK;                      
  call_pv("expo", G_SCALAR);    
  SPAGAIN;                      
                                
  printf ("%d to the %dth power is %d.\n", a, b, POPi);
  PUTBACK;
  FREETMPS;
  LEAVE;  
}

int foo(void) {
    unsigned long t = (unsigned)time( NULL );
    return (t % 5) + 3;
}

int bar(void) {
    unsigned long t = (unsigned)time( NULL );
    return (t % 4) + 2;
}

int main (int argc, char **argv, char **env)
{
  char *my_argv[] = { "", "power.pl" };

  PERL_SYS_INIT3(&argc,&argv,&env);
  my_perl = perl_alloc();
  perl_construct( my_perl );

  perl_parse(my_perl, NULL, 2, my_argv, (char **)NULL);
  PL_exit_flags |= PERL_EXIT_DESTRUCT_END;
  perl_run(my_perl);

  PerlPower(foo(), bar()); /* foo() ** bar() */

  perl_destruct(my_perl);
  perl_free(my_perl);
  PERL_SYS_TERM();
}
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For that program to work, 'power.pl' needs to be also in the cwd - and needs to contain the following:

sub expo {
  my ($a, $b) = @_;
  return $a ** $b;
}
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Cheers,
Rob

thank you for your answer but that does not explain how to call a function from perl that is defined in the c++ code

I thought it did. You use Win32::API (or C::DynaLib) from perl to load/call c functions

or you write your own c++ dispatcher function, and you make it available to perl through xs/Inline::C/pickle.