Embedding the interpreter

This is very easy.

#include <EXTERN.h> #include <perl.h>

static PerlInterpreter *my_perl;

int main(int argc, char **argv, char **env) { my_perl = perl_alloc(); perl_construct(my_perl); perl_parse(my_perl, NULL, argc, argv, (char **)NULL); perl_run(my_perl); perl_destruct(my_perl); perl_free(my_perl); }

perlembed manpage.
Hard part is doing XS-like machinations to expose your program's functions and variables for Perl manipulation.

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