Using SWIG to build Python extensions -- help!
Carl Bevil
carl_bevil at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 24 15:19:59 EST 2003
Hello all. I'm experimenting with using SWIG to build a Python extension. I
have a really simple C++ file that I'd like to extend Python with as a test.
I'm building the interpreter as a library that I statically link into my main
application. Dynamic linking is not an option for my target platform, so I've
downloaded the Python source code. I'm using Python 2.1.3.
I create two files, swigtest.cpp and swigtest.h. swigtest.h has a function
prototype, and swigtest.cpp has the function body.
Then I run SWIG:
swig -python -c++ -module swigtest swigtest.h
This builds two files: swigtest.py and swigtest_wrap.cxx. I rename the latter
to swigtest.cpp, as the compiler I'm using (Metrowerks) doesn't like .cxx files.
Then I compile and link swigtest_wrap.cpp and swigtest.cpp into the python
interpreter, creating a python21_d.lib file (I'm on Windows).
Then I build my main application (a C++ app), and link it statically with the
python interpreter library that I just built.
When I run, I execute the following statement:
PyRun_SimpleString("import swigtest");
.. and I get an error that there is no module named swigtest.
What am I doing wrong here? And do I need to do anything with the swigtest.py
file that SWIG creates? I've read the chapter in O'Reilly's Programming Python
on extending Python, but it makes no mention of SWIG generating a .py file.
And all of its examples are dynamically linked.
Thanks!
Carl
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