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.
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