Writing C Modules with Inline::C

Learning More about Inline::C

Inline::C provides many options and capabilities that I didn't have room to 

explore. There are options that provide automatic wrapper generation as well as 

functions for binding C code at runtime. You can find information about these 

abilities in the Inline::C documentation. Inline::C also comes with a documentation 

only module called Inline::C Cookbook, which contains solutions to a wide variety 

of C module programming problems.

Inline::C is actually just the most prominent member of the Inline family. To 

learn about the Inline parent module, see the Inline documentation. This is where 

you'll find  big picture  documentation that lays out the basic usage of Inline. 

Also, there are many other Inline modules worthy of investigation: Inline::CPP (for 

C++), Inline::Java, Inline::Guile, Inline::Asm (for assembly!), to name a few.

Summary

This chapter completed the picture of Perl module development in C by introducing 

a cutting edge tool, Inline::C. The next chapter explores another corner of CPAN 

development, building CGI modules using CGI::Application.

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