NAME

Inline-Support - Support Information for Inline.pm and related modules.

DESCRIPTION

This document contains all of the latest support information for Inline.pm and the recognized Inline Language Support Modules (ILSMs) available on CPAN.

SUPPORTED LANGUAGES

The most important language that Inline supports is C. That is because Perl itself is written in C. By giving a your Perl scripts access to C, you in effect give them access to the entire glorious internals of Perl. (Caveat scriptor :-)

As of this writing, Inline also supports: 

 - C++
 - Java
 - Python
 - Tcl
 - Assembly
 - CPR
 - And even Inline::Foo! :)

Projects that I would most like to see happen in the year 2001 are: 

 - Fortran
 - Ruby
 - Lisp
 - Guile
 - Bash
 - Perl4

SUPPORTED PLATFORMS

Inline::C should work anywhere that CPAN extension modules (those that use XS) can be installed, using the typical install format of: 

    perl Makefile.PL
    make
    make test
    make install

It has been tested on many Unix and Windows variants.

NOTE: Inline::C requires Perl 5.005 or higher because Parse::RecDescent requires it. (Something to do with the qr operator)

Inline has been successfully tested at one time or another on the following platforms: 

    Linux
    Solaris
    SunOS
    HPUX
    AIX
    FreeBSD
    OpenBSD
    BeOS
    OS X
    WinNT
    Win2K
    WinME
    Win98
    Cygwin

The Microsoft tests deserve a little more explanation. I used the following: 

 Windows NT 4.0 (service pack 6)
 Perl 5.005_03 (ActiveState build 522)
 MS Visual C++ 6.0
 The "nmake" make utility (distributed w/ Visual C++)

Inline::C pulls all of its base configuration (including which make utility to use) from Config.pm. Since your MSWin32 version of Perl probably came from ActiveState (as a binary distribution) the Config.pm will indicate that nmake is the system's make utility. That is because ActiveState uses Visual C++ to compile Perl.

To install Inline.pm (or any other CPAN module) on MSWin32 w/ Visual C++, use these: 

    perl Makefile.PL
    nmake
    nmake test
    nmake install

Inline has also been made to work with Mingw32/gcc on all Windows platforms. This is a free compiler for Windows. You must also use a perl built with that compiler.

The "Cygwin" test was done on a Windows 98 machine using the Cygwin Unix/Win32 porting layer software from Cygnus. The perl binary on this machine was also compiled using the Cygwin tool set (gcc). This software is freely available from http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/

If you get Inline to work on a new platform, please send me email email. If it doesn't work, let me know as well and I'll see what can be done.

SEE ALSO

For general information about Inline see Inline.

For information about using Inline with C see Inline::C.

For sample programs using Inline with C see Inline::C-Cookbook.

For information on writing your own Inline Language Support Module, see Inline-API.

Inline's mailing list is inline@perl.org

To subscribe, send email to inline-subscribe@perl.org

AUTHOR

Brian Ingerson <INGY@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2000, 2001, 2002. Brian Ingerson. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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