Thanks for that. IN my perldoc, I am getting some characters - "a" . What
should they be ?
use Inline C => Config => LIBS => a-lghttpa;
use Inline C => "code ...";
or
use Inline C => "code ...", LIBS => a-lghttpa;
Thanks
Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sisyphus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 28 November 2003 00:28
> To: Chris Faulkner
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: inline CPP
>
>
> Chris Faulkner wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I have been looking at Inline C and Inline CPP. I have compiled
> the simple
> > examples shown on the cpan site.
> >
> > What I need to do is to call a method in an external shared
> library. I have
> > the .so and the necessary header files. How to do do the
> #include's in my
> > perl script ? ARe there any examples ?
> >
>
> 'perldoc Inline::C-Cookbook' - the section headed 'Exposing Shared
> Libraries'. You probably also need an import lib ('.a'). If you don't
> have that lib file then you would have to create it from the shared lib.
>
> (For the includes, they get put in at the start of the cpp code as per
> normal.)
>
> > I am actually confused about two main areas
> >
>
> Confuses me, too. Just choose whichever format suits you. I don't know
> of anything that can be achieved under one construct, but not the other.
> I use the first format.
> Tmtowtdi :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
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