If I want to be entirely honest with you, to use a C library from Perl, you either need someone to write the glue for you, or write it yourself. The problem is that perlxs is basically rock-climbing in the sense that no pure Perl code prepares you for it, there is no ramp.

First, you need to know C. This is the easy part. The hard part is perlxs, since it requires a basic level of understanding of the perl internals. perl core is full of macroes (and it's not necessarily a bad thing) and you need to know a sizeable chunk of it to begin. It's not easy.

I have to confess that even though I maintain a XS Perl module, my understanding of the core is basic. To gain familiarity with perl core seemed to me like learning a new language.

In reply to Re: Wrapping a C library by szbalint
in thread Wrapping a C library by deadpickle

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