i've wrapped a number of C++ libraries for use with perl by writing a thin C layer to 'hide' the C++ interface and then used Inline::C and AUTOWRAP to expose the thin C layer to perl. Inline::C++ was just to unwieldy to use directly.
i'd like to package these wrappers like a standard perl module for local (internal) distribution. i'm interested in using Module::Build rather than ExtUtils::MakeMaker, although i'm not wedded to Module::Build. I see no easy recipe to copy in any of the Module::Build man pages for Inline::C modules. the Inline man page includes a recipe for writing a perl module which uses Inline::MakeMaker (and thus depends on ExtUtils::MakeMaker). but i'm enough of a module newbie (ExtUtils::MakeMaker newbie) to not know how to use it to build the thin C layers i've written that my Inline modules depend on. my typical wrapper consists of a single 'pm' file which invokes Inline::C to AUTOWRAP a shared library. the shared library is built from a standard makefile and a handful of source files. thoughts/comments? /mark
