[Israel.pm] Accessing C API from Perl

[Shmuel Fomberg]

Hi Gaal.

<sorry for replying to this message after so long, but I just tried to 
use it>

I tried to install FFI::Library, but failed to build / install ffcall. 
does anyone knows where I can download a compiled version for Windows?

Also, about Inline::C, how do I tell it "give me all the functions in 
this header file"?
I have a compiler on the target PC, so it is not a problem.

I haven't tried P5NCI yet.

Thanks for the info,
Shmuel.

Gaal Yahas wrote:
> Inline::C works. It may be tricky to deploy, you need a compiler where
> you run it.
> 
> P5NCI generates a lot of code, but possibly is the best tested/proven
> of the lot(?).
> 
> FFI::Library is designed for your situation, calling C from Perl. It's
> not fully automatic nor foolproof (if you make a mistake in the
> signatures, you'll crash). It also requires you install ffcall.
> 
> I've not used Pike.
> 
> 2010/2/13 Shushu Inbar שושו ענבר <shushu.i at gmail.com>
>> If I recall correctly Gaal (RU Here?) showed me something like that
>> few years ago. I think it was Inline::C, but I am not sure about it.
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 00:29, Boris Reitman <boris.reitman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> also Look at Pike, it is perl inside C++
>>>
>>> 2010/2/12 Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch at woobling.org>:
>>>> Apart form Inline::C, also look into:
>>>>
>>>> http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?FFI::Library
>>>>
>>>> and:
>>>>
>>>> http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?P5NCI
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