Ctypes for Perl

by Ryan Jendoubi for The Perl Foundation

Using shared libraries from Perl should be as easy as stating the library and function you want, and letting 'something' take care of the rest. That something is a simple but powerful foreign function interface module, akin to Python's ctypes. Like the Inline:: family, a ctypes-style module would save perl authors from having to write and compile, but going further, would enable the wrapping of external libraries using Pure Perl instead of C.