I've worked a lot in Perl and I can tell you that if you actually mix any bit of C/C++ code in there, it's hard (not impossible though) to make it portable. I've used many Perl wrappers on top of C and I have many packages that don't work out of the box on Windows. This is a very hectic thing to get the packages to work sometimes. Even if they work, you have to deal with memory leaks and other nasty things. This is mainly due to anti-MS people not spending enough time to test on the platform they hate.
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I've worked a lot in Perl and I can tell you that if you actually mix any bit of C/C++ code in there, it's hard (not impossible though) to make it portable. I've used many Perl wrappers on top of C and I have many packages that don't work out of the box on Windows. This is a very hectic thing to get the packages to work sometimes. Even if they work, you have to deal with memory leaks and other nasty things. This is mainly due to anti-MS people not spending enough time to test on the platform they hate.