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Posted by PerlFAQ Server on May 11, 2008, 3:03 pm
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3.27: Where can I learn about linking C with Perl?
If you want to call C from Perl, start with perlxstut, moving on to
perlxs, xsubpp, and perlguts. If you want to call Perl from C, then read
perlembed, perlcall, and perlguts. Don't forget that you can learn a lot
from looking at how the authors of existing extension modules wrote
their code and solved their problems.
You might not need all the power of XS. The Inline::C module lets you
put C code directly in your Perl source. It handles all the magic to
make it work. You still have to learn at least some of the perl API but
you won't have to deal with the complexity of the XS support files.
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