Hi, we have a third-party product that has a C++ api on HP-UX.
I would like be able to use the API in Python (as I remember Python is good at doing this). I have no experience with this so I Googled and tried to find some info on what I had to do. So, I installed Python 2.4.4 and Swig 1.3.33 The header file to the library is '/opt/OV/include/opcsvcapi.h'. I created a SWIG file with the following content: " %module opcsvcapi %{ /* Includes the header in the wrapper code */ #include "/opt/OV/include/opcsvcapi.h" %} /* Parse the header file to generate wrappers */ %include "/opt/OV/include/opcsvcapi.h" " Then I ran the cmd: # swig -c++ -python opcsvcapi.i with output: " /opt/OV/include/opcsvcapi.h:41: Warning(362): operator= ignored /opt/OV/include/opcsvcapi.h:46: Warning(503): Can't wrap 'operator Type' unless renamed to a valid identifier. " The result are two files: opcsvcapi.py opcsvcapi_wrap.cxx I created a 'setup.py' file with the following content: " import distutils from distutils.core import setup, Extension setup(name = "opcsvcapi", version = "1.0", ext_modules = [Extension("_opcsvcapi", ["opcsvcapi.i","opcsvcapi.cxx"])]) " Then I run: python setup.py build This results in an extra file: opcsvcapi_wrap.c and a 'build' directory and the following errors: " running build running build_ext building '_opcsvcapi' extension swigging opcsvcapi.i to opcsvcapi_wrap.c swig -python -o opcsvcapi_wrap.c opcsvcapi.i creating build creating build/temp.hp-ux-B.11.11-9000-800-2.4 gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict- prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/local/include/python2.4 -c opcsvcapi_wrap.c -o build/temp.hp-ux-B.11.11-9000-800-2.4/opcsvcapi_wrap.o In file included from /usr/local/include/python2.4/Python.h:8, from opcsvcapi_wrap.c:118: /usr/local/include/python2.4/pyconfig.h:851:1: warning: "_POSIX_C_SOURCE" redefined <command line>:1:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition In file included from opcsvcapi_wrap.c:2490: /opt/OV/include/opcsvcapi.h:12:18: error: vector: No such file or directory In file included from opcsvcapi_wrap.c:2490: /opt/OV/include/opcsvcapi.h:15: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'SvcAPI' opcsvcapi_wrap.c: In function 'Swig_var_SvcAPI_set': opcsvcapi_wrap.c:2505: error: 'SvcAPI' undeclared (first use in this function) opcsvcapi_wrap.c:2505: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once opcsvcapi_wrap.c:2505: error: for each function it appears in.) opcsvcapi_wrap.c:2505: error: 'namespace' undeclared (first use in this function) opcsvcapi_wrap.c:2505: error: expected expression before ')' token opcsvcapi_wrap.c: In function 'init_opcsvcapi': opcsvcapi_wrap.c:3064: error: 'Swig_var_SvcAPI_get' undeclared (first use in this function) error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 " and that's it. Any idea what I am doing wrong? Any help much appreciated Kris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list