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manojghosh has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Please suggest diffrent methods or ideas in implementing the .dll function call from a perl program in windows. i have tried Win32::API but failed to do so. If perlXS package can help me out? or there is any other method? like i am calling
use Win32::API; my $temp='123456789'; $sp=' '; my $fun=new Win32::API('DataGenerate.dll','GetACC','LL','L' ) or die $ +^E; my $y = $fun->Call($temp,$sp); print($y);
whereas our GetACC() is defined like this: Long GetACC(String,String); The interpreter crashes as i am running this ...!