Re: [Swig-user] Compilation error when Perl 5.8 headers are used

[Thomas T. <th...@ya...>]

Josh - Great, that helped to get around the compilation problem. Thanks!

Thomas.

-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Cherry [mailto:jc...@nc...] 
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 3:23 PM
To: Thomas Theakanath
Cc: swi...@li...
Subject: Re: [Swig-user] Compilation error when Perl 5.8 headers are used



On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Thomas Theakanath wrote:

> //within a class definition
>
> sampleDir *readdir();
>
>
>
> The compilation of wrap_sample.cc fails with this message:
>
> macro `readdir' used without args
>
>
>
> The interesting thing is that the same generated source gets compiled with
> Perl 5.6.1 headers and the problem occurs only with Perl 5.8.

Do the Perl 5.8 headers, but not the 5.6.1 headers, define a macro called 
"readdir"?  Does putting

%{
#undef readdir
%}

near the top of your interface file help?

Josh