[Gllug] bored programmer needs help

Ian Norton bredroll at darkspace.org.uk
Thu Dec 18 23:56:40 UTC 2003


On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 07:04:30PM +0000, Ian Norton wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:55:12PM +0200, Dave van Zijl wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ill give it a swig,
> 
> Ian
> 

Just tried Swig, works fairly well :-) I am well and truly impressed at how
easiy it is to use a .so file with this! who knows, maybe someone will make a
opengl game in perl :-p

thanks

Ian

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