On 17/03/03 14:10 -0800, Clint Olsen wrote: > On Mar 17, Brian Ingerson wrote: > > Inline binds to libraries just fine. As you say, it does not generate an > > interface from a header file, but I'm just not convinced that's a good > > idea. I've always said that good C interfaces do not make good Perl > > interfaces. I'm open to discussion with some actual use case examples > > though. > > If the types in the interface are already in the typemap, then I think they > are good candidates for automatic wrapping. I like to only write/cross > interfaces where I absolutely have to, otherwise it's just convenient using > the void* pointer and passing it around to the various C functions > transparently. For the size and types of data I was using, it was much > faster to remain in C land whereever possible. > > What I found is that I ended up writing redundant wrappers around my C > functions in Inline in order to get around this limitation.
Have you tried the AUTOWRAP option? IIRC correctly, it let's you just put function prototypes in the C code, and then it generates the wrappers automatically. Cheers, Brian
