From: jim@...
Date: 2004-08-19T22:46:51+09:00
Subject: Re: swig problem with init

* Lyle Johnson <lyle.johnson@gmail.com> [2004-08-19 22:18:07 +0900]:

> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:35:54 +0900, Phil Tomson <ptkwt@aracnet.com> wrote:
> 
> > In your case you called it ITKDb and it seems
> > to have lowercased it.
> 
> No, look at the SWIG-generated wrapper code, e.g.
> 
>     mITKDb = rb_define_module("ITKDb");
> 
> SWIG definitely honored his module name choice of ITKDb. What does
> seem to have happened is that Jim then compiled the wrapper code into
> a shared library named (lowercase) itkdb.so, which (as Joel as pointed
> out) is inconsistently named. SWIG just generates the source code and
> doesn't have any control over how you actually compile that code into
> a shared library for use by Ruby.

Yes, that is exactly what happened, and I recognized it immediately after
Joel's and Phil's email. I have run across this before, but
had forgotten about it. 

Sorry for the noise, but maybe it's good for the archives.
-- 
Jim Freeze