Inline::Support(3)

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version 0.87 · 12 versions
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💖 NAME 💖

Inline-Support — literally the support-info doc for Inline.pm and all its little module besties 🫶

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so bestie, this whole document is where you find all the latest support tea for Inline.pm plus every recognized Inline Language Support Module (ILSMs, iykyk) that's out there on CPAN. no gatekeeping here 💅

🌈 SUPPORTED LANGUAGES 🌈

the absolute main character language that Inline supports is C. and like, obviously?? because Perl itself is written in C. so when you give your Perl scripts access to C, you're lowkey handing them the keys to the entire glorious internals of Perl. (Caveat scriptor :-) 😭)

as of this writing, Inline also supports:

  • C++
  • Java
  • Python
  • Tcl
  • Assembly
  • CPR
  • And even Inline::Foo! :)

projects that I would most like to see happen in the year 2001 are:

  • Fortran
  • Ruby
  • Lisp
  • Guile
  • Bash
  • Perl4

🦋 SUPPORTED PLATFORMS 🦋

Inline::C should work literally anywhere that CPAN extension modules (the ones 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 sooo many Unix and Windows variants, no cap.

NOTE: Inline::C requires Perl 5.005 or higher because Parse::RecDescent requires it. (something to do with the qr operator 👀)

Inline has been successfully tested at one time or another on the following platforms:

  • Linux
  • Solaris
  • SunOS
  • HPUX
  • AIX
  • FreeBSD
  • OpenBSD
  • BeOS
  • OS X
  • WinNT
  • Win2K
  • WinME
  • Win98
  • Cygwin

the Microsoft tests deserve a little more explanation, bestie. I used the following:

  • Windows NT 4.0 (service pack 6)
  • Perl 5.005_03 (ActiveState build 522)
  • MS Visual C++ 6.0
  • The nmake make utility (distributed w/ Visual C++)

Inline::C pulls all of its base configuration (including which make utility to use) from Config.pm. since your MSWin32 version of Perl probably came from ActiveState (as a binary distribution), the Config.pm will indicate that nmake is the system's make utility. that's because ActiveState uses Visual C++ to compile Perl. slay, I guess 💅

to install 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 perl binary on this machine was also compiled using the Cygwin tool set (gcc). this software is freely available from <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. 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

for general information about Inline see Inline.

for information about using Inline with C see Inline::C.

for sample programs using Inline with C see Inline::C-Cookbook.

for information on writing your own Inline Language Support Module, see Inline-API.

Inline's mailing list is inline@perl.org

to subscribe, send email to inline-subscribe@perl.org

💜 AUTHOR 💜

ingy döt Net <ingy@cpan.org>

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 <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this was perl v5.42.2, dated 2026-05-21, and it's the Inline::Support(3) page from User Contributed Perl Documentation — periodt. go forth and inline responsibly 🧚✨

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