Examples\pde build problem, SWIG with NT and VC++

[Mike Haspert]

I am new to Python and SWIG. I managed to build the pde example in the SWIG 
doc using VC++6.0,  Python2.1, and SWIG1.1, but only after commenting out 
extern "C" around #include python.h.  in pde_wrap.cpp (and changing the extension 
of the output file from .c to .cpp). Everything seems to work but I am not confident 
I've done the right thing and suspect that I'm doing a newbie thing like using/not using 
some option incorrectly.

Should I expect the wrapper file to need tweaks or not?
Has anyone working with SWIG and VC++ built this example?
If so, did you hit this problem, and do you have a better idea than tweaking the 
wrapper?

Thanks in advance for any help.
-mlh
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I ran SWIG like this and got no error messages:
    swig -python -c++ -shadow pde.i

The code I had to comment out in the wrapper file was as follows:
//#ifdef __cplusplus
//extern "C" {
//#endif
#include "Python.h"
//#ifdef __cplusplus
//}
//#endif


The compile errors I got before commenting it out were consistent, math.h gets sucked
in when including python.h and it has template code that doesn't get preprocessed away:

pde_wrap.cpp
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\math.h(514) : error C2894: 
templates cannot be declared to have 'C' linkage
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\wchar.h(700) : error C2733: 
second C linkage of overloaded function 'wmemchr' not allowed
        C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\wchar.h(699) : see 
declaration of 'wmemchr'
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\wchar.h(702) : error C2733: 
second C linkage of overloaded function 'wcschr' not allowed
        C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\wchar.h(701) : see 
declaration of 'wcschr'
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\wchar.h(704) : error C2733: 
second C linkage of overloaded function 'wcspbrk' not allowed
        C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\wchar.h(703) : see 
declaration of 'wcspbrk'
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\wchar.h(706) : error C2733: 
second C linkage of overloaded function 'wcsrchr' not allowed
        C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\wchar.h(705) : see 
declaration of 'wcsrchr'
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\wchar.h(708) : error C2733: 
second C linkage of overloaded function 'wcsstr' not allowed
        C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\INCLUDE\wchar.h(707) : see 
declaration of 'wcsstr'
Error executing cl.exe.
The #defines that lead to the offending code being included seem correct to me.