Question about creating modules

Hi,

I'm new to perl and need a little help. I'm using ActiveState Perl under
windows. I've tried creating a module from a C++ source using swig and the
methods outlined in both the perl documentation and the swig documentation.
I have VC++ installed and making the dll files works successfully. However
when I try to load the module the perl interpreter seems to loop forever.
The problem seems to occur at the bootstrap stage. Unfortunately I don't
know enough to make a good guess as too what's going on.

I'll try to give a little background as to what I'm trying to achieve. I
have a DLL that I want access from perl. The glue that I need between perl
and the DLL is really just a class definition with a list of pure functions
(some using VARIANT's) that correspond to a virtual table as setup by the
DLL I want to call. The module I'm trying to create only contains 2
functions one to create an instance of the class object and one to destroy
it. SWIG seemed to be what I needed but having produced the necessary file
nd done what I can. I seem to be stuck.

I'm using version 5.8.8 of perl and I have stripped out everything in my C++
code, recompiled and made the library and still it wont load.

Can anybody help?

Leon


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