[Distutils] Swig for Windows

[Thomas Heller]

> Hi,
> Where can I get a working version of swig (suitable for use with Python
> distutils) for Windows? The downloads from the web site don't work out of
> the box - distutils uses a -dnone argument, which they don't support, and
> they don't seem to find the python.swg file when run by hand - I get errors
Distutils probably works with SWIG1.1, which has the -dnone flag.
It seems you can still download this one (maybe only the source distro).

> 
> >swig -python example.i
> Generating wrappers for Python
> SWIG : Fatal error. Unable to locate python.swg. (Possible installation
> problem)
> 
> This is just downloading and extracting to a new directory which I put into
> my PATH (not how I'd like to do it, but the simplest guess in the absence of
> any obvious installation instructions :-()
IIRC, you have to set a SWIG_LIB environment variable, but it should be
somewhere in the docs.

Thomas