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This issue has little to do with Perl 6, or even Perl, per se. Garrett Goebel <garrett@scriptpro.com> wrote: > There's an awful lot of Win32 modules that depend on Win32::API to > dynamically call functions from Win32 API *.dll's. There is pretty good > evidence that there are Perl programmers out there that what to dynamically > call C functions from libraries without writing XS glue code or requiring a > C compiler. Support for calling arbitrary C functions without a C compiler is hard to implement and port. GNU ffcall looks like a good, portable implementation, for which FFI.pm is an attempt at a Perl wrapper, but, as you pointed out, ffcall is under GPL. Since this issue mainly affects Windows users (I assume), probably the best solution is a Windows-specific module that does not try for much beyond duplicating Visual Basic's capability in this area. -- John Tobey, late nite hacker <jtobey@john-edwin-tobey.org> \\\ /// ]]] With enough bugs, all eyes are shallow. [[[ /// \\\Thread Previous | Thread Next