Well, well... after some time crawling after information on distutils, SWIG, and C++, it seems that disutils has some problems with the combo SWIG/C++ (and bug/patches found across found on mailing list never included in distutils :/ ).

So setuptools seems more alive, and I gave it a go: Same example as below, replacing

from distutils.core import setup, Extension

by

from setuptools import setup, Extension

.

No luck. Same results.

Anyone with an idea ?

--thanks.

2006/6/7, Risky Martin risky.martin@gmail.com:

Hi,

I am trying to use disutils's features with 'SWIG'... but hit a rather strange problem.

To reproduce it:

setup.py

from distutils.core import setup, Extension

e = Extension("_foo", sources = ["foo.i", ], swig_opts = ["-outdir .", ])

setup(name="foo", ext_modules=[e, ])

---

building fails like:

...

python setup.py build

running build running build_ext building '_foo' extension swigging foo.i to foo_wrap.c swig -python -outdir . -o foo_wrap.c foo.i swig error : Unrecognized option -outdir . Use 'swig -help' for available options. error: command 'swig' failed with exit status 1

but a copy/paste of the swig command shows that '-outdir' *is* recognised...

...

swig -python -outdir . -o foo_wrap.c foo.i

Unable to find file 'foo.i'.

Are the permitted options for SWIG hardcoded in 'distutils' ?

RiMa