Debugging a script running in an embedded Perl interpreter

[Reinstein, Shlomo]

Hi,   I am a first-time user of perlembed. I embedded the Perl interpreter in my C/C++ application in order to provide users with scripting capabilities for the application. I use “-e 0” as arguments for “perl_parse”, and I use “perl_eval_pv” to evaluate the code entered by the user. The user can use “require” or “use” to load / execute Perl modules and the interpreter takes care of that. This is the normal use of Perl by the users.   I would now like to enable the user to debug a script that is loaded using “use” or “require”, much like invoking the Perl debugger with “perl –d script.pl”. Is that possible? If so, how do I do that? Please note the following: 1. There should be a single interpreter state throughout the execution of the application. I don’t want to dismiss one interpreter and start another because I lose the state. 2. The application is a GUI application. The user enters code in some text editor, and the code is evaluated when some button is pressed. Therefore, I imagine that I can’t use just give the “-d” argument to “perl_parse”.   Thanks much, Shlomo