Thanks for the link almut. I think I got some understanding of the .al files. I'm not sure how/why my perl script is looking for it though. I didnt see any reference to using AutoLoader in the SWIG instructions. I'm not sure the easiest way forward. For now, my goal is to get my C APIs running from Perl. I can live with slower performance if necessary in short term.

Steps till I ran into this problem

- I ran swig and generated a .pm file

- Modified my existing C API's build (Makefile) to compile the sources + the _wrap.c file generated by swig into a shared lib.

- Created a simple perl script with "use <mymodule>" and then invoked one API.

I did not use MakeMaker or ModuleMaker etc.

After I read about AutoLoader, AutoSplit, I wentahead and ran autosplit_list_modules on my module's .pm file. I see the lib/auto directories created, but no .al files are until the auto/ directory. Still debugging..any pointers will be helpful.

In reply to Re^2: Unable to find ".al" file error by perlmonk1729
in thread Unable to find ".al" file error by perlmonk1729

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