SWIG+Distutils - no harmony?

[Thomas Heller]

"Martin Bless" <m.bless at gmx.de> wrote in message news:3c459006.8635157 at news.muenster.de...
> Getting courageous I try building 'example.pyd'
> from the SWIG 'Simple Example' using SWIG and the Distutils.
> Looks promising but doesn't succeed. I didn't
> modify 'example.c' and 'example.i'.
>
> Problems/questions:
>
> (1) Is 'setup.py' ok?

Your files are ok.

> (2) BEWARE: What's really shocking:
> After see (unsuccessful)
>   python setup.py build -cmingw32
> the original 'example.c' is GONE AND AWAY -
> replaced by the wrapper.
> (3) What's going wrong?

A distutils bug. Support for SWIG is rather poor.
SWIGging a file <pathname>.i creates a file <pathname>.c
overwriting any previous file of this name. So better
change another name.

Thomas