On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 04:46:16PM -0000, Dermot Paikkos wrote:

> There are some functions in a C library that I would like to use and 
> I was wondering if it is possible to do so from perl.
> 
> I started reading the perlxstut and this seems like the way forward 
> but I was hoping someone could confirm it for me before I throw 
> myself completely into it.
> 
> Can you harness functions from a C libraries into perl? And if so is 
> xs the way?

Yes and yes.  You might like to check out Inline::C and swig, but my
preference is to XS.

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