NAME

JavaScript::V8 - Perl interface to the V8

SYNOPSIS

use JavaScript::V8;

my $context = JavaScript::V8::Context->new();

$context->bind_function(write => sub { print @_; });

$context->eval(q/
  for (i = 99; i > 0; i--) {
      write(i + " bottle(s) of beer on the wall, " + i + " bottle(s) of beer\n");
      write("Take 1 down, pass it around, ");
      if (i > 1) {
          write((i - 1) + " bottle(s) of beer on the wall.");
      }
      else {
          write("No more bottles of beer on the wall!");
      }
  }
/);

INSTALLING V8

See http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=413 if you are having trouble on gcc 4.4.1

svn checkout http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ v8
cd v8
scons 
sudo mv include/v8.h /usr/local/include/
sudo mv libv8.a /usr/local/lib/

REPOSITORY

The source code lives at http://github.com/pmurias/javascript-v8.

AUTHORS

Pawel Murias <pawelmurias at gmail dot com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2009 Paweł Murias

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

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Claes Jakobsson <claesjac at cpan dot org> I stole and adapted pieces of docs and API design from JavaScript.pm

Brian Hammond <brain @ fictorial dot com> For salvaging the code of V8.pm from a message board (which i took some code and the idea from)

The hacker who wrote V8.pm and posted it on the message board (http://d.hatena.ne.jp/dayflower/20080905/1220592409)

All the fine people at #perl@freenode.org for helping me write this module