Re: [MacPerl] How to extend the Mac toolbox in MacPerl

[Arved Sandstrom <Arved_37@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Chris Nandor wrote:

> Start with MacPerl: Power and Ease as a general MacPerl book, which has
> some information on doing XS stuff and including XFCNs.  Then read this
> mailing list for discussion of doing more XS stuff, which Arved is kinda
> spearheading right now in "XS for the Masses" or somesuch.  :)
> 
> It is hard to say where to go ... I think looking at other XS code is the
> best way to start.  Look at the MacPerl files that end in .xs in your
> lib:Mac: directory, and look at modules like AudioCD::Mac and compiled
> binaries in my CPAN directory.

Yup, what we're really getting at here is "how do I do XS on my Mac if I
have a recent Codewarrior, I don't need to rebuild MacPerl, and I don't
have the old libraries".

In terms of general XS, adding to what Chris suggested, you can't go wrong
grabbing Dean Roehrich's XS CookBooks off the net. Once you've been
thrashing around with perlxs and perlxstut for a few months, when you see
the cookbooks it's sort of like a magic moment... :-)

Arved


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