char** perlargv = malloc( (argc+3) * sizeof(char*) ); perlargv[0] = "perl"; perlargv[1] = "-e"; perlargv[2] = "1"; perlargv[3] = "--"; int i = argc-1; while (i--) perlargv[i+4] = argv[i+1]; perl_parse(my_perl, NULL, argc+3, perlargv, NULL);