inline-support(3)
NAME
Inline-Support - Support Information for Inline.pm and
related modules.
DESCRIPTION
This document contains all of the latest support informa
tion for "Inline.pm" and the recognized Inline Language
Support Modules (ILSMs) available on CPAN.
SUPPORTED LANGUAGES
The most important language that Inline supports is "C".
That is because Perl itself is written in "C". By giving a
your Perl scripts access to "C", you in effect give them
access to the entire glorious internals of Perl. (Caveat
scriptor :-)
- As of this writing, Inline also supports:
- - C++
- Java
- Python
- Tcl
- Assembly
- CPR
- And even Inline::Foo! :) - Projects that I would most like to see happen in the year
2001 are:
- Fortran
- Ruby
- Lisp
- Guile
- Bash
- Perl4
SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
- "Inline::C" should work anywhere that CPAN extension mod
ules (those that use XS) can be installed, using the typi
cal install format of: - perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install - It has been tested on many Unix and Windows variants.
- NOTE: "Inline::C" requires Perl 5.005 or higher because
"Parse::RecDescent" requires it. (Something to do with the
"qr" operator) - Inline has been successfully tested at one time or another
on the following platforms:
Linux
Solaris
SunOS
HPUX
AIX
FreeBSD
OpenBSD
BeOS
OS X
WinNT
Win2K
WinME
Win98
Cygwin- The Microsoft tests deserve a little more explanation. I
used the following:
Windows NT 4.0 (service pack 6)
Perl 5.005_03 (ActiveState build 522)
MS Visual C++ 6.0
The "nmake" make utility (distributed w/ Visual C++)- "Inline::C" pulls all of its base configuration (including
which "make" utility to use) from "Config.pm". Since your
MSWin32 version of Perl probably came from ActiveState (as
a binary distribution) the "Config.pm" will indicate that
"nmake" is the system's "make" utility. That is because
ActiveState uses Visual C++ to compile Perl. - To install "Inline.pm" (or any other CPAN module) on
MSWin32 w/ Visual C++, use these:
perl Makefile.PL
nmake
nmake test
nmake install- Inline has also been made to work with Mingw32/gcc on all
Windows platforms. This is a free compiler for Windows.
You must also use a perl built with that compiler. - The "Cygwin" test was done on a Windows 98 machine using
the Cygwin Unix/Win32 porting layer software from Cygnus.
The "perl" binary on this machine was also compiled using
the Cygwin tool set ("gcc"). This software is freely
available from http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ - If you get Inline to work on a new platform, please send
me email email. If it doesn't work, let me know as well
and I'll see what can be done.
SEE ALSO
For general information about Inline see Inline.
For information about using Inline with C see Inline::C.
For sample programs using Inline with C see
Inline::C-Cookbook.
For information on writing your own Inline Language Sup
port Module, see Inline-API.
Inline's mailing list is inline@perl.org
To subscribe, send email to inline-subscribe@perl.org
AUTHOR
Brian Ingerson <INGY@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2000, 2001. Brian Ingerson. All rights
reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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