[Gllug] bored programmer needs help

[Jon Dye]

Dave van Zijl wrote:
>>1. is there any way in perl i can call functions that are in a C library
> 
> somwhere?
> 
>>(like native methods in java) without all the bother of re-compiling perl
> 
> etc.
> 
> Sure, we use SWIG (http://www.swig.org/) which basically creates a Perl
> wrapper (.pm) around a .so and you specify which methods to make available
> to the .pm. It has a few problems (doesn't handle certain overloaded methods
> very well - eg when the only difference is the data type of parameter
> expected) but is quite decent

Which is only a problem with C++ as you can't overload methods in C.

JD

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