Re^5: Inline::C and Packaged Distributions

[tlm]

My problem is that, for reasons I don't yet understand, my Inline::C does not generate *.xs files.

% rm -rf _Inline
% cat hello.pl
use Inline C => 'void hello(){printf("Hello, world\n\n");}';

hello;
__END__

% perl hello.pl
Hello, world

% tree .
.
|-- _Inline
|   |-- build
|   |-- config
|   `-- lib
|       `-- auto
|           `-- hello_pl_45c9
|               |-- hello_pl_45c9.bs
|               |-- hello_pl_45c9.inl
|               `-- hello_pl_45c9.so
`-- hello.pl

As you can see, no *.xs file is created. What is missing from the code?

[demerphq]

Ahm, shoot. My apologies. You need to enable the option that tells Inline not to clean up after itself. I think you want something like

use Inline Config =>
           ENABLE => FORCE_BUILD,
           DISABLE => CLEAN_AFTER_BUILD;

or the equivelent

use Inline Config =>
           FORCE_BUILD => 1,
           CLEAN_AFTER_BUILD => 0;

IIRC, this should come before you say

use Inline::C;

BTW, I assure you that Inline::C does indeed produce XS. :-) In fact thats exactly what Inline::C does for you: autogenerate XS bindings for the C routines you provide.