Re: Multiple packages in a single .so

["muppet" <scott asofyet org>]

Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> I'm writing perl bindings for a Glib-using library, by following the
> tutorial that I was pointed to on this list a while back.
>
> It works, mostly; I have .xs files for each of my GObject definitions,
> and they get compiled and linked into a single .so file that perl
> happily loads if I say "use MyModule;".
>
> However, what I don't seem to be able to do is to tell perl about all
> the different GObjects, similar to what happens with Gtk2::Window when
> you say "use Gtk2 -init;" (and only that).
>
> Any hints what I should be looking at to make "MyModule::foo::bar()"
> work when I did just "use MyModule"?

The actual mechanism for telling the perl interpreter that your xsubs (and
indeed your Glib::Objects) exist is in your module's BOOT code.  If you have
more than one XS file in your extension, you need all of those bits of BOOT
code to be called; Gtk2-Perl uses Glib::CodeGen's write_boot() method to
handle this stuff, and the documentation attempts to explain in more detail.

http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/doc/pod/Glib/CodeGen.html


I believe that all of this stuff implicitly assumes that you're following the
Gtk2-Perl naming conventions in your extension.


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