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Where can I learn about linking C with Perl? [h2xs, xsubpp]

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If you want to call C from Perl, start with the perlxstut manpage, moving on to the perlxs manpage, xsubpp, and the perlguts manpage. If you want to call Perl from C, then read the perlembed manpage, the perlcall manpage, and the perlguts manpage. Don't forget that you can learn a lot from looking at how the authors of existing extension modules wrote their code and solved their problems.

Source: Perl FAQ: Programming Tools
Copyright: Copyright (c) 1997 Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington.

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