Hi. I've been using Inline::C CPAN module for an assignment and I have a few questions. In general I'm quite impressed and think this is an excellent module for the task that I have been assigned, which is to write a shell in Perl to talk to arbitrary C libraries allowing the user the ability to call and exercise their C library. As such it would be great if I could simply give Inline C a .h file and a .a file and it would figure out all of the functions defined in the .h file. I've been attempting to use Automatic Function Wrappers<http://search.cpan.org/%7Esisyphus/Inline-0.48/C/C-Cookbook.pod#Automatic_Function_Wrappers> but it seems I have to parse the .h file myself and determine the functions contained therein then compose a string of their prototypes.
Also, is there any way to call Config? I'd like to do this for two different reasons. First off I'd like to offer the ability to the user to tell my Perl shell that they want to load say "mynewlib.h" that has a corresponding "mynewlib.a" at run time. Now I can call bind at run time to bind this mynewlib.h but I cannot call config to configure the LIBS parm to have "-L/path/to/mynewlib -lmynewlib" since I've only seen how to do this with the "use" statement which is done at compile time. Secondly I'd like to be able to call INFO and get the list of C functions that have been successfully bound to Perl for documentation purposes. I'd like to be able to put out a help screen and show the user what C functions he can call. So then it would be great if I could tell Inline C "Here's a .h file and here's the LIB information as to where the compiled code is. Please bind all C functions you find a prototype for. Oh and allow me to inquire about them through info". Thanks in advance. -- Andrew DeFaria<http://defaria.com> FATAL ERROR! SYSTEM HALTED! - Press any key to do nothing. ============================================================ The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reproduction, dissemination or distribution of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Tellabs ============================================================
