On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 11:24, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
>
> As far as I know, there is no "native" way of calling C/C++ libraries
> from within Perl 5. When C/C++ API involves structures, the
> corresponding Perl binding uses hashes, and an intermediate step
> converts the hash to a structure, and call the C program with the
> converted structure. An example of an elegent system which does this is
> in gtk2-perl (http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net). Muppet, please correct
> me if I am wrong here.
Just another quick, and possibly dumb, question: Is XS the standard way
of binding Perl to a C/C++ library?
Anuradha
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