Re: [Swig-user] error compiling a wrapped c++ file

[Paul M. <p.e...@ru...>]

Nitro wrote:

>> I sent a reply (but forgot to cc the list), there's another problem,  
>> swig doesn't like the %module line as is. And btw, gcc sees this is 
>> c++  code, look at the error messages. Although using g++ instead of 
>> gcc does  result in different libs being linked I think
>
>
> Oh ok, I am sorry! The error messages really state something about 
> C++, I  looked at them yesterday and couldn't find any notion of C++ 
> being used. I  had an error once where SWIG produced C++ code, but gcc 
> tried to compile  it as C and thus the errors which appeared seemed 
> similar. How does gcc  decide it's a C++ file? By the .cxx extension?

Yes, I think that's the trick. I was surprised myself, but it does seem 
to work. But I do always use g++ myself...

Paul


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