Re: [MacPerl-Porters] perl shared library request (or job offer)

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 8.43 -0700 2000.02.22, Kevin Walker wrote:
>I'd like to embed the basic perl interpreter (not necessarily
>including any of the mac-specific aspects of macperl) inside another
>application -- actually, inside a plug-in module I'm writing for
>another application.
>
>It would be nice if there were a (PPC) shared library that supported
>the standard  C embedding API for perl, but as far as I can tell this
>does not exist in any publicly distributed form.
>
>I looked into trying to build such a shared lib myself from the perl
>source code, but found the task daunting.
>
>So I'm wondering:
>
>(1) Is there anyone out there who has such a thing on hand, or would
>find it easy to create?
>
>(2) If not, is there anyone who's interesting in providing me with
>such a shared lib in return for cash?

This beast may exist sometime "soon."  A port of MacPerl to the 5.6 source
(which is in beta now for Unix and Windows) is in progress, and may include
a shared library.  So my suggestion is to wait.  Matthias Neeracher is the
guy doing the work, and he is on this list.

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