From: John Tobey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Since this issue mainly affects Windows users (I assume), Actually I've run across a couple people wanting this on unices. > That's a different problem. Configure is trying to reverse engineer > header files. Garrett already knows the prototype of his DLL function > he wants to call, but, unlike Configure, he doesn't have access to a C > compiler. Well... I do have access to a C compiler, but not everyone does (nor should have to). I guess I don't understand the pro's/con's of XS glue code vs. something like FFI, Win32::API, or C::DynaLib. Can anyone elaborate on this? I do know that writing XS stuff is pretty impossible for even your intermediate Perl hackers. That is, unless they are at least intermediate C coders as well. When it comes to working with XS files, I feel like I'm trying to grapple a wet duck while bashing its 50 pound beak against a problem. Whatever eventually replaces XS, I certainly hope that coding to it feels more like Perl working with C, than mystic C macros working with Perl. Garrett
