Comments on: Native libraries, native objects http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/native-libraries-native-objects/ Something cool about Perl 6 every day Sun, 03 Feb 2013 05:15:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: ttjjss http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/native-libraries-native-objects/#comment-1134 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:20:27 +0000 http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/?p=1037#comment-1134 Yeah, I forgot to mention you need to import the NativeCall module to do that (it’ll probably live in core Rakudo one day). I’ll update the post to mention that, thanks!

]]> By: heir http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/native-libraries-native-objects/#comment-1133 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:37:49 +0000 http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/?p=1037#comment-1133 Trying to run the first code snippet using a current rakudo from git, I get:

===SORRY!===
No applicable candidates found to dispatch to for ‘trait_mod:’. Available candidates are:
:(Attribute $attr, Any $rw)
:(Attribute $attr, Any $readonly)
:(Attribute $attr, Any $box_target)
:(Routine $r, Any $rw)
:(Routine $r, Any $default)
:(Routine $r, Any $info, Any $inlinable)
:(Parameter $param, Any $readonly)
:(Parameter $param, Any $rw)
:(Parameter $param, Any $copy)
:(Parameter $param, Any $required)
:(Routine $r, Any $export)
:(Routine $r, Any $hidden_from_backtrace)
:(Mu $type, Any $rw)
:(Mu $type, Any $size, Any $nativesize)
:(Mu $type, Any $export)
:(Mu $docee, Any $doc, Any $docs)
:(Mu $docee, Any $doc, Any $docs)
:(Mu $child, Mu $parent)

]]> By: Moritz http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/native-libraries-native-objects/#comment-1100 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:32:14 +0000 http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/?p=1037#comment-1100 The data types are all in the signature of the Perl 6 subroutine. For example sub mpd_connection_new(Str $host, Int $port) returns Connection boils down to a C function void* mpd_connection_new(char*, int). No additional header file needed.

]]> By: Daniel http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/native-libraries-native-objects/#comment-1098 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:48:40 +0000 http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/?p=1037#comment-1098 How do Perl know the “true” datatype from the .so file? Does it need a .h file or something?

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