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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 "Parse::RecDes‐
50       cent" requires it. (Something to do with the "qr" operator)
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52       Inline has been successfully tested at one time or another on the fol‐
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55           Linux
56           Solaris
57           SunOS
58           HPUX
59           AIX
60           FreeBSD
61           OpenBSD
62           BeOS
63           OS X
64           WinNT
65           Win2K
66           WinME
67           Win98
68           Cygwin
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70       The Microsoft tests deserve a little more explanation. I used the fol‐
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73        Windows NT 4.0 (service pack 6)
74        Perl 5.005_03 (ActiveState build 522)
75        MS Visual C++ 6.0
76        The "nmake" make utility (distributed w/ Visual C++)
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78       "Inline::C" pulls all of its base configuration (including which "make"
79       utility to use) from "Config.pm". Since your MSWin32 version of Perl
80       probably came from ActiveState (as a binary distribution) the "Con‐
81       fig.pm" will indicate that "nmake" is the system's "make" utility. That
82       is because ActiveState uses Visual C++ to compile Perl.
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84       To install "Inline.pm" (or any other CPAN module) on MSWin32 w/ Visual
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87           perl Makefile.PL
88           nmake
89           nmake test
90           nmake install
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92       Inline has also been made to work with Mingw32/gcc on all Windows plat‐
93       forms. This is a free compiler for Windows. You must also use a perl
94       built with that compiler.
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96       The "Cygwin" test was done on a Windows 98 machine using the Cygwin
97       Unix/Win32 porting layer software from Cygnus. The "perl" binary on
98       this machine was also compiled using the Cygwin tool set ("gcc"). This
99       software is freely available from http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
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101       If you get Inline to work on a new platform, please send me email
102       email.  If it doesn't work, let me know as well and I'll see what can
103       be done.
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SEE ALSO

106       For general information about Inline see Inline.
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108       For information about using Inline with C see Inline::C.
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110       For sample programs using Inline with C see Inline::C-Cookbook.
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112       For information on writing your own Inline Language Support Module, see
113       Inline-API.
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115       Inline's mailing list is inline@perl.org
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117       To subscribe, send email to inline-subscribe@perl.org
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AUTHOR

120       Brian Ingerson <INGY@cpan.org>
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123       Copyright (c) 2000, 2001, 2002. Brian Ingerson. All rights reserved.
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125       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
126       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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128       See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html
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