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On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, John Tobey wrote: > This issue has little to do with Perl 6, or even Perl, per se. It sort of does. If anyone cares to continue this, the internals list (perl6-internals) would be the place. > 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