Re: [PATCH] dynamically link swig runtime on windows (Can I commit this?)

Colin Watson wrote:
>> "perl -e 'print $]'" returns "5.006001" for me. What's the most
>> reliable way to derive perl56.lib from that? I'm thinking:
>>
>> _re_perl_version = re.compile(r'(\d+)\.(\d{3})')
>>
>> def perl_library(version):
>> match = _re_perl_version.match(version)
>> return 'perl' + match.group(1) + str(int(match.group(2))) +
>> '.lib'
>>
>> perl_library('5.006001')
>
> Ugh, printing something in one language with good regexp support and
> then going off and doing the regexps in another seems rather odd ...

Python also has pretty good regexp support, it's just a little more
verbose...

> You could do something like this instead:
>
> perl -MConfig -e 'print "$Config{revision}$Config{patchlevel}"'

This seems to be much more direct. If it works I'll use it instead.

> What is it you're actually trying to get here, though?

Just trying to get the name of the perl library for building the perl swig
bindings on Windows. It has different names depending on the version of perl
being used (perl56.lib, perl58.lib, etc...)

- Russ

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Received on Fri Aug 8 03:42:43 2003