Perl programming on MPE/iX - April 2002

Solution Symposium Page 36April 4, 2002
perl extensions
• binary code residing in an external NMXL loaded at run time
• a thin layer of C that allows the Perl interpreter to call compiled code
written in other languages
• several extension libraries come bundled with Perl (sockets, POSIX, etc)
• a decent tutorial is available - the examples even work on MPE!
• http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6.1/pod/perlxstut.html
• this is how you would do it to add support for intrinsics