Re: Detect which version of perl an XS module is linked against?

[rafl]

You can load the xs extension using dlopen (or whatever windows has to realize that functionality - glib has g_module_open which allows to specify if symbols should be resolved lazily or not, so there has to be a way to do that on win32) and tell it to resolve all symbols non-lazily. If that fails it's probably due to some removed library.

Also I wonder why those extensions are linked against libperl. I thought those are loaded from perl/libperl. At least on my unix system I couldn't find a single extension linked to libperl.

[Limbic~Region]

rafl,
Thanks for the guidance but unfortunately I need a step-by-step tutorial. Other than Inline::C, I don't have a lot of experience embedding C in Perl nor do I have any experience developing native executables on Win32. Well, aside from what I can accomplish with MinGW and Visual Basic 5 (/me ducks).

Update: Thanks. Given your reply below, I will work with the #parrot team as any solution needs to be accepted as a patch.

[rafl]

DynaLoader provides a dl_load_file function, which will probably do what I said above, except you don't need c or anything.

Also be sure to set the PERL_DL_NONLAZY environment variable to something true to force nonlazy binding.