SWIG, What switches/flags are required to make SWIG work?

["Brian Homecall" <b dot woodroffe at homecall dot co dot uk>]

Hello,

I am trying to get the first example out of the SWIG tutorial (www.swig.org) 
to work,
and it does not for me.  Before I rush into my code.   I am able to make 
neither a
Python nor Perl example to work.   I tried downloading SWIG from 
www.swig.org
onto Cygwin and that did not work, although the same downloaded sources did
work for RH/SUSE.  I was able to get the example working for RH and SUSE
Linux.  I suspect that it is a matter of some compile switch.   If 
compilation flags
would it be appropriate to document them in the FAQ, API?

BTW I had to create an example.h file for inclusion into the example.i file; 
this step is
not present in the SWIG tutorial, but at least I was able to resolve that.

When I run my example test program, I get :-

$ test_example.pl
Can't load './example.dll' for module example: Bad address at 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
at example.pm line 8
Compilation failed in require at ./test_example.pl line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./test_example.pl line 3.
]0;/cygdrive/e/Share/Brian/MOS/Perl/Swig
Brian@home-PC /cygdrive/e/Share/Brian/MOS/Perl/Swig
$

When I go to the relevant line in the DynaLoader it says my module has 
failed to load, why?

DynaLoader.pm :--
   # Many dynamic extension loading problems will appear to come from
   # this section of code: XYZ failed at line 123 of DynaLoader.pm.
   # Often these errors are actually occurring in the initialisation
   # C code of the extension XS file. Perl reports the error as being
   # in this perl code simply because this was the last perl code
   # it executed.

   my $libref = dl_load_file($file, $module->dl_load_flags) or
croak("Can't load '$file' for module $module: ".dl_error());

########################
This is my build:-

rm -rf *.o *.a *.dll example_wrap.c example.pm
gcc -c -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/CORE/ example.c
swig -perl5 example.i
gcc -c -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/CORE/ example_wrap.c
ld -shared -o example.dll example.o 
xample_wrap.o  -L/usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/CORE/ -lperl -lpthread -lm -lc

############
This is my example.i

/* File : example.i */
%module example
%{
/* Put headers and other declarations here */
#include "example.h"
%}

extern double My_variable;
extern int fact(int);
extern int my_mod(int n, int m);

#######################
This is my example.c

/* File : example.c */
#include "example.h"

double My_variable = 3.0;

/* Compute factorial of n */
int fact(int n)
{
 if (n <= 1) return 1;
 else return n*fact(n-1);
}

/* Compute n mod m */
int my_mod(int n, int m)
{
 return(n % m);
}

#########################
This is my example.h

extern double My_variable;
extern int fact(int);
extern int my_mod(int n, int m);

###########################
This is my Makefile

.SUFFICIES : .c .i .o

OBJS=example.o example_wrap.o
TARGET=example.dll

CCOPTS= -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/CORE/
LDOPTS= -L/usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/CORE/ -lperl -lpthread -lm -lc
SWIGOPTS=-perl5
LD=ld
CC=gcc
SWIG=swig

all $(TARGET) : $(OBJS)
$(LD) -shared -o $(TARGET) $(OBJS) $(LDOPTS)

example_wrap.c : example.i
$(SWIG) $(SWIGOPTS) $<

clean :
rm -rf *.o *.a *.dll example_wrap.c example.pm

.c.o :
$(CC) -c $(CCOPTS) $<

#################################
This is my test_example.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use example;
print example::fact(4), "\n";
print example::my_mod(23,7), "\n";
print $example::My_variable + 4.5, "\n";

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I attach  cygcheck.out

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Any help would be welcome.
Brian Woodroffe
brian_woodroffe@bigfoot.com

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