Calling Perl from Hel^H^H^HVisual Basic

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

Is there a relatively painless way to embed Perl in a VB application? If possible, I'd like to hijack VB's GUI-creation tools while still relying on Perl for the heavy lifting. I know I can call a script externally, but I'd like the whole thing to compile into a single .exe in the end.

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Re: Calling Perl from Hel^H^H^HVisual Basic by MeowChow (Vicar) on Jul 18, 2001 at 02:15 UTC
ActiveState's PDK offers PerlCtrl and PerlCOM for this task. MeowChow s aamecha.s a..a\u$&owag.print	[reply]
Re: Calling Perl from Hel^H^H^HVisual Basic by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Jul 18, 2001 at 03:02 UTC
Use a "Windows Script Component". The eg directory in ActiveState's distribution has an example that does exactly this! It calls Perl code (in a .WSC file) from a Visual Basic Script file. Since it's just like any other COM component, you can call from regular VB just as easily. —John	[reply]
Re: Calling Perl from Hel^H^H^HVisual Basic by TGI (Parson) on Jul 18, 2001 at 02:11 UTC
Win32::API lets you call or import functions from any 32 bit DLL, it might help. You might want to consider using Win32::Gui, if you're not too wedded to VB. TGI says moo	[reply]