hs-perl5

This package provides a Haskell interface to an embedded Perl 5 interpreter.

Documentation and functionality is scarce at the moment; see the tests under test for some basic usage examples.

Currently supported features are:

• Function calls
• Method calls
• Module imports
• Callbacks

NB: This package is experimental and still in development

Prerequisites

This package requires you to have the Perl libraries and header files installed on your system (at least 5.8.8).

On a Debian-based system, they can typically be installed by typing

$ sudo apt-get install perl-dev

Installation

This package can be installed either using Stack or cabal. First, git clone this repository, cd in, and then

$ stack --stack-yaml=stack-lts-11.yaml build
# or use one of the other provided stack.yaml files

or

$ cabal update
$ cabal install --dependencies-only
$ cabal build