How can I call a DLL from a scripting language?

Question

I have a third-party product, a terminal emulator, which provides a DLL that can be linked to a C program to basically automate the driving of this product (send keystrokes,

Answer 1

In Perl, P5NCI will also do that, at least in some cases. But it seems to me that anything you use that directly manages interfacing with the dll is going to be user-unfriendly, and if you are going to have a user (scriptor?) friendly wrapper, it might as well be an XS module.

I guess I don't see a meaningful distinction between "compile and send out executables" and "compile and send out scripts".