View file File name : Support.pod Content :=pod =for comment DO NOT EDIT. This Pod was generated by Swim v0.1.46. See http://github.com/ingydotnet/swim-pm#readme =encoding utf8 =head1 NAME Inline-Support - Support Information for Inline.pm and related modules. =head1 DESCRIPTION This document contains all of the latest support information for C<Inline.pm> and the recognized Inline Language Support Modules (ILSMs) available on CPAN. =head1 SUPPORTED LANGUAGES The most important language that Inline supports is C<C>. That is because Perl itself is written in C<C>. By giving a your Perl scripts access to C<C>, you in effect give them access to the entire glorious internals of Perl. (Caveat scriptor :-) As of this writing, Inline also supports: =over =item * C++ =item * Java =item * Python =item * Tcl =item * Assembly =item * CPR =item * And even Inline::Foo! :) =back Projects that I would most like to see happen in the year 2001 are: =over =item * Fortran =item * Ruby =item * Lisp =item * Guile =item * Bash =item * Perl4 =back =head1 SUPPORTED PLATFORMS C<Inline::C> should work anywhere that CPAN extension modules (those that use XS) can be installed, using the typical install format of: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install It has been tested on many Unix and Windows variants. B<NOTE>: C<Inline::C> requires Perl 5.005 or higher because C<Parse::RecDescent> requires it. (Something to do with the C<qr> operator) Inline has been successfully tested at one time or another on the following platforms: =over =item * Linux =item * Solaris =item * SunOS =item * HPUX =item * AIX =item * FreeBSD =item * OpenBSD =item * BeOS =item * OS X =item * WinNT =item * Win2K =item * WinME =item * Win98 =item * Cygwin =back The Microsoft tests deserve a little more explanation. I used the following: =over =item * Windows NT 4.0 (service pack 6) =item * Perl 5.005_03 (ActiveState build 522) =item * MS Visual C++ 6.0 =item * The "nmake" make utility (distributed w/ Visual C++) =back C<Inline::C> pulls all of its base configuration (including which C<make> utility to use) from C<Config.pm>. Since your MSWin32 version of Perl probably came from ActiveState (as a binary distribution) the C<Config.pm> will indicate that C<nmake> is the system's C<make> utility. That is because ActiveState uses Visual C++ to compile Perl. To install C<Inline.pm> (or any other CPAN module) on MSWin32 w/ Visual C++, use these: perl Makefile.PL nmake nmake test nmake install Inline has also been made to work with Mingw32/gcc on all Windows platforms. This is a free compiler for Windows. You must also use a perl built with that compiler. The "Cygwin" test was done on a Windows 98 machine using the Cygwin Unix/Win32 porting layer software from Cygnus. The C<perl> binary on this machine was also compiled using the Cygwin tool set (C<gcc>). This software is freely available from L<http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/> If you get Inline to work on a new platform, please send me email email. If it doesn't work, let me know as well and I'll see what can be done. =head1 SEE ALSO For general information about Inline see L<Inline>. For information about using Inline with C see L<Inline::C>. For sample programs using Inline with C see L<Inline::C-Cookbook>. For information on writing your own Inline Language Support Module, see L<Inline-API>. Inline's mailing list is inline@perl.org To subscribe, send email to inline-subscribe@perl.org =head1 AUTHOR ingy döt Net <ingy@cpan.org> =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright 2000-2019. Ingy döt Net. Copyright 2008, 2010, 2011. Sisyphus. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See L<http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html> =cut