I've written something with Inline which I'm happy with, and I'd like to try using SWIG. I've got strawberry 5.12, cygwin (without the perl distro), Windows 7, and the SWIG zip unzipped without anything else being done (no env vars set etc). Getting as far as the following took a fair bit of trial and error, but I'm now stuck with:

mimi@mimi-PC ~
$ export CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning

mimi@mimi-PC ~
$ SRCS=C:/Users/mimi/swig/Examples/perl5/simple/example.c

mimi@mimi-PC ~
$ OBJS=C:/Users/mimi/swig/Examples/perl5/simple/example.o

mimi@mimi-PC ~
$ LIBPATH="-LC:/strawberry/perl/lib/CORE -LC:/strawberry/c/lib"

mimi@mimi-PC ~
$ LIBS=-lperl512

mimi@mimi-PC ~
$ cd C:/Users/mimi/swig/Examples/perl5/simple

mimi@mimi-PC /cygdrive/c/Users/mimi/swig/Examples/perl5/simple
$ ../../../swig -perl5 example.i

mimi@mimi-PC /cygdrive/c/Users/mimi/swig/Examples/perl5/simple
$ gcc -c $SRCS

mimi@mimi-PC /cygdrive/c/Users/mimi/swig/Examples/perl5/simple
$ gcc -shared $OBJS $LIBPATH $LIBS -o example.dll

mimi@mimi-PC /cygdrive/c/Users/mimi/swig/Examples/perl5/simple
$ perl -Mexample
Can't find 'boot_example' symbol in ./example.dll
 at example.pm line 11
Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

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I have read this which is quite spare on exact detail that I can fathom.

So any help would be highly appreciated.

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