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## NAME
    Inline-Support - Support Information for Inline.pm and related modules.

## DESCRIPTION
    This document contains all of the latest support information for "Inline.pm" and the recognized
    Inline Language Support Modules (ILSMs) available on CPAN.

## SUPPORTED LANGUAGES
    The most important language that Inline supports is "C". That is because Perl itself is written
    in "C". By giving a your Perl scripts access to "C", you in effect give them access to the
    entire glorious internals of Perl. (Caveat scriptor :-)

    As of this writing, Inline also supports:

    *   C++

    *   Java

    *   Python

    *   Tcl

    *   Assembly

    *   CPR

    *   And even [Inline::Foo](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Inline%3A%3AFoo/markdown)! :)

    Projects that I would most like to see happen in the year 2001 are:

    *   Fortran

    *   Ruby

    *   Lisp

    *   Guile

    *   Bash

    *   Perl4

## SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
    "[Inline::C](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Inline%3A%3AC/markdown)" should work anywhere that CPAN extension modules (those that use XS) can be
    installed, using the typical install format of:

        perl Makefile.PL
        make
        make test
        make install

    It has been tested on many Unix and Windows variants.

    NOTE: "[Inline::C](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Inline%3A%3AC/markdown)" requires Perl 5.005 or higher because "[Parse::RecDescent](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Parse%3A%3ARecDescent/markdown)" requires it.
    (Something to do with the "qr" operator)

    Inline has been successfully tested at one time or another on the following platforms:

    *   Linux

    *   Solaris

    *   SunOS

    *   HPUX

    *   AIX

    *   FreeBSD

    *   OpenBSD

    *   BeOS

    *   OS X

    *   WinNT

    *   Win2K

    *   WinME

    *   Win98

    *   Cygwin

    The Microsoft tests deserve a little more explanation. I used the following:

    *   Windows NT 4.0 (service pack 6)

    *   Perl 5.005_03 (ActiveState build 522)

    *   MS Visual C++ 6.0

    *   The "nmake" make utility (distributed w/ Visual C++)

    "[Inline::C](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Inline%3A%3AC/markdown)" pulls all of its base configuration (including which "make" utility to use) from
    "Config.pm". Since your MSWin32 version of Perl probably came from ActiveState (as a binary
    distribution) the "Config.pm" will indicate that "nmake" is the system's "make" utility. That is
    because ActiveState uses Visual C++ to compile Perl.

    To install "Inline.pm" (or any other CPAN module) on MSWin32 w/ Visual C++, use these:

        perl Makefile.PL
        nmake
        nmake test
        nmake install

    Inline has also been made to work with Mingw32/gcc on all Windows platforms. This is a free
    compiler for Windows. You must also use a perl built with that compiler.

    The "Cygwin" test was done on a Windows 98 machine using the Cygwin Unix/Win32 porting layer
    software from Cygnus. The "perl" binary on this machine was also compiled using the Cygwin tool
    set ("gcc"). This software is freely available from <<http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/>>

    If you get Inline to work on a new platform, please send me email email. If it doesn't work, let
    me know as well and I'll see what can be done.

## SEE ALSO
    For general information about Inline see Inline.

    For information about using Inline with C see [Inline::C](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Inline%3A%3AC/markdown).

    For sample programs using Inline with C see [Inline::C](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Inline%3A%3AC/markdown)-Cookbook.

    For information on writing your own Inline Language Support Module, see Inline-API.

    Inline's mailing list is <inline@perl.org>

    To subscribe, send email to <inline-subscribe@perl.org>

## AUTHOR
    ingy döt Net <<ingy@cpan.org>>

## COPYRIGHT
    Copyright 2000-2019. Ingy döt Net.

    Copyright 2008, 2010, 2011. Sisyphus.

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
    Perl itself.

    See <<http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>>