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NAME

6       Inline-Support - Support Information for Inline.pm and related modules.
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DESCRIPTION

9       This document contains all of the latest support information for
10       "Inline.pm" and the recognized Inline Language Support Modules (ILSMs)
11       available on CPAN.
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SUPPORTED LANGUAGES

14       The most important language that Inline supports is "C". That is
15       because Perl itself is written in "C". By giving a your Perl scripts
16       access to "C", you in effect give them access to the entire glorious
17       internals of Perl. (Caveat scriptor :-)
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19       As of this writing, Inline also supports:
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21        - C++
22        - Java
23        - Python
24        - Tcl
25        - Assembly
26        - CPR
27        - And even Inline::Foo! :)
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29       Projects that I would most like to see happen in the year 2001 are:
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31        - Fortran
32        - Ruby
33        - Lisp
34        - Guile
35        - Bash
36        - Perl4
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SUPPORTED PLATFORMS

39       "Inline::C" should work anywhere that CPAN extension modules (those
40       that use XS) can be installed, using the typical install format of:
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42           perl Makefile.PL
43           make
44           make test
45           make install
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47       It has been tested on many Unix and Windows variants.
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49       NOTE: "Inline::C" requires Perl 5.005 or higher because
50       "Parse::RecDescent" requires it. (Something to do with the "qr"
51       operator)
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53       Inline has been successfully tested at one time or another on the
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56           Linux
57           Solaris
58           SunOS
59           HPUX
60           AIX
61           FreeBSD
62           OpenBSD
63           BeOS
64           OS X
65           WinNT
66           Win2K
67           WinME
68           Win98
69           Cygwin
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71       The Microsoft tests deserve a little more explanation. I used the
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74        Windows NT 4.0 (service pack 6)
75        Perl 5.005_03 (ActiveState build 522)
76        MS Visual C++ 6.0
77        The "nmake" make utility (distributed w/ Visual C++)
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79       "Inline::C" pulls all of its base configuration (including which "make"
80       utility to use) from "Config.pm". Since your MSWin32 version of Perl
81       probably came from ActiveState (as a binary distribution) the
82       "Config.pm" will indicate that "nmake" is the system's "make" utility.
83       That is because ActiveState uses Visual C++ to compile Perl.
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85       To install "Inline.pm" (or any other CPAN module) on MSWin32 w/ Visual
86       C++, use these:
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88           perl Makefile.PL
89           nmake
90           nmake test
91           nmake install
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93       Inline has also been made to work with Mingw32/gcc on all Windows
94       platforms. This is a free compiler for Windows. You must also use a
95       perl built with that compiler.
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97       The "Cygwin" test was done on a Windows 98 machine using the Cygwin
98       Unix/Win32 porting layer software from Cygnus. The "perl" binary on
99       this machine was also compiled using the Cygwin tool set ("gcc"). This
100       software is freely available from http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
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102       If you get Inline to work on a new platform, please send me email
103       email.  If it doesn't work, let me know as well and I'll see what can
104       be done.
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SEE ALSO

107       For general information about Inline see Inline.
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109       For information about using Inline with C see Inline::C.
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111       For sample programs using Inline with C see Inline::C-Cookbook.
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113       For information on writing your own Inline Language Support Module, see
114       Inline-API.
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116       Inline's mailing list is inline@perl.org
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118       To subscribe, send email to inline-subscribe@perl.org
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AUTHOR

121       Brian Ingerson <INGY@cpan.org>
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124       Copyright (c) 2000-2002. Brian Ingerson.
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126       Copyright (c) 2008, 2010, 2011. Sisyphus.
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128       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
129       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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131       See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html
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