Example #1 README

This is an example Perl extension that creates, uses and destroys C++ structs - from within Perl space. A very basic example.

A pointer to an instance of a C++ object is stuffed into a Perl-space IV, and only manipulated using wrapper functions exported into Perl space that take this IV/pointer as their first argument.

References & credits:

`man perlembed`
`man perlxstut`
`man perlxs`
`man perlguts`
"Advanced Perl Programming", "Programming Perl", "Perl in a Nutshell", "Perl Cookbook" - all four from O'Reilly & Associates
the sources of Perl 5.005_03 and Perl 5.6.1, in particular ext/Thread/Thread.c (Damn. 5.8.0 is out just now - gotta take a look.)
`man gcc`
USENET newsgroups - several hints on how to compile Perl using a C++ compiler, what to do about -DBOOL=char, how to avoid the assert redefinition warning etc.