Is there a way to call perl from C and have the data be shared? In that I mean suppose I call a perl script from C and a variable in the perl script $a = 3, would there be a way during runtime to say that int a = $a.
I know it wont be exactly like that but I hope you can see what I am getting at here. Shared memory between perl and c.
Thank you!
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It's usually easier to start with perl and call C to do the bitty stuff.
That's how a large number of perl modules get implemented.
It should be easy enough to find plenty of perl resources to allow you to do that.
There's also Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator
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I've never done it, but you can embed perl in a C program (and as Salem says*, vice versa). Have a look here:
perlembed - how to embed perl in your C program
Actually looks fairly easy.
*however I don't think you need to resort to SWIG to do it, there are some native perl features for this too.
Last edited by MK27; 03-21-2010 at 02:35 PM.
C programming resources:
GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
The C Book -- nice online learner guide
Current ISO draft standard
CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
3 (different) GNU debugger tutorials: #1 -- #2 -- #3
cpwiki -- our wiki on sourceforge
I found this stuff in my perl book (O'Reilly Programming Perl). What I would like is to use perl as a scripting language sort of like lua is. I am more curious about the shared memory. I suppose that the examples provided allow me to retrieve a value which is fine as well and will work for what I want I think. Next beast comes to getting it to work in windows.
Thank you guys!
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