On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm developing an app that is embedding perl for some web scarping. I
> developed an perl extension that has to callback into my C++ code
> while running inside embedded interpreter. If I dynamically link the
> perl extension as a .dll then the xsub in the perl extension gets
> called correctly and does what I need it to do.
>
> However, if I statically link the perl extension and then link that
> with my Visual C++ app with the embedded perl interpreter inside, my
> xsub never gets called ?? The linking process completes and there are
> no unresolved external symbols. But when my perl code calls the xsub I
> get an error message saying 'undefined subroutine' in perl.
If you are using the mechanism from win32/Makefile, then you must make sure
you add your extension to the list in STATIC_EXT to make sure it gets
initialized properly. Otherwise you need to add some code to your
xs_init() function to define the bootstrap function in your module via
newXS("MyExt::boot_MyExt", boot_MyExt, __FILE__);
and then make sure you call MyExt::boot_MyExt() manually before calling
any function from MyExt(). The BOOT section in the XS code is responsible
for registering all the XS functions at the Perl level.
Cheers,
-Jan
