Re: [Quickfix-developers] Python issues

[Oren M. <or...@qu...>]

> Python will complain that we are not passing enough parameters to the
__init__ call of SocketInitiator.=20

Thanks.  We'll fix this in the repository.

>  SWIG wrapper does not seem to generate a Python object
> for the Dictionary class.  I'm not too sure why.

This is because the quickfix.i file is not exposing Dictionary.h.
Adding it to the interface file should do the trick.

> 3. SWIG output does not compile under Visual Studio

There is a bigger problem then the ones you have outlined.  Visual
Studio is just not capable of compiling the 6MB source file generated by
SWIG.  I'm not really sure what to do about this.  This is why there
isn't a visual studio project for the Python or Ruby API.  I also
explored generating the Java and .NET APIs with swig some time back but
ran into the same barrier.  SWIG doesn't support splitting up the source
file and is not very efficient about preserving size in its generator.

It may be possible to exclude enough things to bring the file size down,
but I'm not sure how small we would need to get it.

Perhaps building the bindings under Cygwin would be a more feasable.