SWIG problems with gcc and Cygwin?

[Norman Vine]

"Michael Yanowitz"wrote 
> > 
>    I am just trying out SWIG, but quickly ran into problems.
> Using Cygwin gcc, I tried the following:
> 
> 3)ran in cygwin:  swig -i python example.i

try  
'swig -python example.i'

> 4)Attempted to run on cygwin:  ld -shared example.o example_wrap.o -o
> _example.so


try
$ gcc -I/usr/include/python2.4 -L/lib/python2.4/config --shared example.c example_wrap.c -lpython2.4 -o _example.dll

$ python
Python 2.4.1 (#1, May 27 2005, 18:02:40)
[GCC 3.3.3 (cygwin special)] on cygwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from example import *
>>> get_time()
'Tue Jun 27 16:17:41 2006\n'

HTH

Norman