Billy N. Patton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >My first excursion into XS I did not use h2xs. >gbarr set up the base and I extended.
I know - I was "there" ;-) > >I, for one will be VERY impressed if you get h2xs to work in C++. h2xs or near derivative never will. It needs a reasonably complete C++ type parser. >THat >was my original thought. Rather than writing the .xs and the .pm I'l >just write a h2xs++ and be done with it. I quickly realized that this >was an even larger task than the one I was trying to do with xs. Yup. >SO >back off and just put 1 function at a time and test it thoroughly as I go. >typmap ->ok >.xs -> compile ok Warning free with g++ -Wall ? >.pm -< ok >init.t -> crash and burn. So you debug the thing - either with gdb or by liberally filling you .xs file (and in particular typemmaps) with print statements. And don't use C++ style IO for the debug till you know that that works right.
