Have you ever wanted a quick way to add a scriptable element to your applications? Embedding an existing language into your application is the simplest and most effective way to incorporate such a system. You get the benefits of an established language to expand the functionality of your application in a flexible way without users having to rebuild the application to use it. In this tutorial, you'll learn a process for embedding a scripting language into an application. You'll see how to build the application and how to provide wrapper functions that support full argument and return value support.
Prerequisites
This tutorial is written for developers who want to know how to incorporate the Perl interpreter into applications and how to expose these applications to allow Perl to control and manage the components. To use the techniques in this tutorial, you must be proficient in C and have at least a basic knowledge of Perl, its structure, and how to write basic applications in the Perl language.
System requirements
To run the code samples in this tutorial, you'll need:
- Perl, which is available from www.perl.com
- A C compiler, such as GCC
Duration
More than two hours
Formats
html, pdf
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