Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI, C::DynaLib etc.

John Porter writes:
> > > That's a different problem.  Configure is trying to reverse engineer
> > > header files.  Garrett already knows the prototype of his DLL function
> > > he wants to call, but, unlike Configure, he doesn't have access to a C
> > > compiler.
> 
> Hate to say it... well, no, I don't really.
> Wouldn't Tcl be the best example to follow here?
> 
> (By the way, Simon, you added a bogus address to the To header.
> You misspelled "internals".  I've removed it.)

Please don't.  This thread belongs on perl6-internals@perl.org.
Please take this subject there ASAP.

Thanks,

Nat 

• External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI, C::DynaLib etc. by Garrett Goebel
• [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI, C::DynaLib etc. by John Tobey
• GPL issues and creation of licensing working group (was Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI, C::DynaLib etc.) by Bradley M. Kuhn
• Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI,C::DynaLib etc. by Ask Bjoern Hansen
• Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI,C::DynaLib etc. by Dan Sugalski
• Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI, C::DynaLib etc. by Jarkko Hietaniemi
• Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI, C::DynaLib etc. by John Tobey
• Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI, C::DynaLib etc. by Simon Cozens
• Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI, C::DynaLib etc. by John Porter
• Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI, C::DynaLib etc. by Nathan Torkington
• Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI, C::DynaLib etc. by Chaim Frenkel
• Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: External API's: XS, Pickle, Win32::API, FFI, C::DynaLib etc. by Jarkko Hietaniemi