Thanks guys for the insightful input, I agree a more robust and elegant end solution would be to have SWIG auto-generate the appropriate Makefile.PL (or Build.PL) that will then be used to do the compilation and linking properly for one's environment.

I will work on this and present it to the SWIG people. For the time being they have at least updated the Perl quick tutorial which was broken to what I proposed and this has been tested. I know its only for systems with gcc but that is what their original commands had anyway so I guess no harm done.

In reply to Re^3: Updating broken and possibly incomplete SWIG Perl module building tutorial on SWIG web site by hermida
in thread Updating broken and possibly incomplete SWIG Perl module building tutorial on SWIG web site by hermida

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