Resources

Online Documentation

• perldoc perlxs— Reference work for the external subroutine (xs) file specification.

• perldoc perlxstut— Tutorial on creating modules.

Programs

• h2xs— The program that translates C header files into Perl external subroutine (xs) files.

Modules

• Extutils::MakeMaker— Module used by Makefile.PL to generate the real Makefile.

• C::Scan— Module used by h2xs to parse the C header file.

• DynaLoader— Module to automatically load dynamic libraries.

• Autoloader— Module that automatically loads functions. In particular, it handles the calling of dynaloader to load functions in shared libraries.