Hi, there is tutorial on NativeCall on Zoffix Znet blog http://blogs.perl.org/users/zoffix_znet/2016/05/perl-6-nativecall-look-ma-im-a-c-programmer-1.html
z > On Jun 30, 2016, at 06:14, Kaare Rasmussen <ka...@jasonic.dk> wrote: > >> On 2016-06-29 12:26, webmind wrote: >>> On 28/06/16 05:26, Kaare Rasmussen wrote: >>> >>> In that vein, I'm surprised how easy it is to bind to C libraries. This >>> could very well be a killer feature for Perl 6 compared to other high >>> level languages. The resource usage has to come down to a reasonable >>> level for that to be interesting, though. >> Can you perhaps recommend a tutorial or something on how this works? > > I don't really know of any tutorial. I just wanted to implement listen/notify > support for PostgreSQL in DBIish (https://github.com/perl6/DBIish), so I > looked at PostgreSQL's excellent documentation and at the existing native > bindings in DBIish. > > I think this https://docs.perl6.org/language/nativecall has been updated > since, so perhaps it's a good place to start. Otherwise take a look at the > modules list, there are plenty of modules linking to native libraries, incl > gtk, misc compression and sound libraries, etc. > > There's even a module to generate a stub class to start with, > https://github.com/Skarsnik/gptrixie > > I think that for more advanced interfaces, these helpers might come in handy: > > https://github.com/jonathanstowe/NativeHelpers-Array > https://github.com/salortiz/NativeHelpers-Blob > > But things may have changed or may change in the future, I haven't looked at > it for several months now. Which is equivalent to years in normal Internet > life :-) > > > /kaare
