[Swig-user] Private constructors for C. SWIG runtime

[Alexander S. <aso...@gm...>]

Greetings!

I need to force users of the generated Java interface to use factory method
in order to instantiate some class, so I need to prevent it from being
created using default constructor. I know it is possible in C++ adding a
no-arg constructor in private area, but can I do it with C and %extend?

Also my previous question about SWIG run-time was never answered. Shortly,
if compiling more than one module (%module statement) into a single shared
library there are compilation warnings about duplicate definitions. I
thought '-noruntime' would solve the issue, but it was said deprecated.
Then I found SWIG_NOINCLUDE which solved the problem, but is it a correct
way for excluding SWIG run-time out of generated code? It would be nice if
you state in documentation in favor of what '-noruntime' was deprecated.
There is corresponding question on StackOverflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8178479/avoiding-duplicate-swig-boilerplate-when-using-many-swig-generated-modules/19242304#19242304

Thank you in advance!

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Sincerely, Alexander