We have an application written in C and ported to multiple platforms. The application has an API also in C. We provide a perl module interface to that API.
However, we find there is a dependency between the version of perl used to generate the module. Consequently the module must be re-compiled for every version of perl that is used by a client.
Can anyone offer a way of creating the perl module API interface without the dependency to the version of perl?

Yes, Perl modules that include C (as yours will) do need to be compiled for the appropriate version of Perl - as I recall, it doesn't change with every Perl release, but certainly it does from time to time.

How much control over / access to your C application do you have? How complex (number of calls, etc) is the API?  I don't think I've an answer that will give you a solution in 5 minutes, but how about writing a little bit of "C" to offer the API as a service, then your Perl module could be pure Perl?   Could be very neat - or utterly impractical - depending on the metrics of your application!

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