[Hamlib-developer] perl bindings, was Re: ft-817

[Stephane F. <f4...@fr...>]

Hi Chris!

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002, si...@al... wrote:
> I have a quick question for you:  How easy is it to make SUN RPC calls from
> Perl?  I'm just learning Perl and know nothing about RPC... but I thought it
> would be fun to be able to make Perl scripts that talk to the rpcrig server
> you wrote.  Any pointers?
> 
> I've found perlrpcgen, but it seems pretty defunct (as asserted by author)
> .. is it h2xs I need to use?  This doesn't seem to be the path I need
> (intuitively), but there's plenty of mention of SUN/ONC RPC Perl extenstions
> on the h2xs man page.
> 
> Any pointers you could give would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry, I don't know any, even though the idea looks cute.

However, this gives me another idea: direct Hamlib perl binding. It should
be quite feasible using perl xs. For more info, see perlxs(1) and
perlxstut(1). For this purpose, hamlib++ may even be more appropriate to
map to the OO approach of perl.
Any takers?


Cheers,
Stephane