Re: [Swig-user] Using char ** as a parameter to a class method (perl)

[Josh C. <jc...@nc...>]

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Geoff Barrett wrote:

> I'm trying to interface to a C++ class which has a method expecting a 
> char ** parameter.  I can get the argv.i example from the manual 
> (http://www.swig.org/Doc1.3/Perl5.html#Perl5_nn33) to work just fine on 
> a plain function but it doesn't seem to do the right thing with a class 
> method.  Here's my header file:
>
> 20 class simple {
> 21 public:
> 22   simple();
> 23   simple(char **);
> 24   ~simple();
> 25 };
...
> No matching function for overloaded 'new_simple' at 
> /projects/firepath_WRK1/work/gbarrett/fp_simulator/simple.pm line 59. 
> destroying simple

It may have nothing to do with the fact that it's a method.  The 
difference may be that this function is overloaded (easy to check) and you 
need to provide a typecheck typemap.

Josh