Re: SWIG on VMS

On Aug 6, 2010, at 10:42 AM, Andrew Black wrote:

> I am trying to use SWIG to create a module for calling C from Perl  
> (on VMS and
> on Unix/Linux platforms).  To date I have been running the SWIG EXE  
> on linux and
> copying over the generated files.
>
> - Is there a port of SWIG available to run natively on VMS

There appears to be a SWIG kit here:

http://www.vmspython.org/anonymous/jfp/swig1331.zip

> - is there any feature available to produce the .OPT file needed to  
> create
> universal symbols on Alpha and IA64

I think I've heard of things that can do that, possibly bits included  
with gSOAP, WSIT, or axis2.  Sorry to be vague.

> - any other gotchas or hints


Never used it, so I don't know, but let us know if you get it working.
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