Hello, Here's a report on building Perl bindings for GEOS on MinGW using the 2.2.3 release.
Configuration, compilation and installation of GEOS went without problems. Then I created perl subdir under swig and tried building the bindings. After the effort a simple test script runs ok. Here's what I did: 1. added #ifdef SWIGPERL %include ../perl/perl.i #endif to geos.i 2. created perl.i with just one line (taken from ruby.i): %rename(next_) geos::GeometryCollectionIterator::next(); 3. ran swig (in msys) with arguments: -c++ -perl5 -o geos_wrap.cxx ../geos.i The resulting geos_wrap.cxx had to be fixed by adding #ifdef select #undef select #endif Around "Workaround perl5 global namespace..." 4. created the test script test.pl (this is one of the python tests): use Test::More qw(no_plan); BEGIN{ use_ok( 'geos' ); } $gf = geos::GeometryFactory->new(); $x = 492187.0; $y = 4493034.0; $z = 1500.0; $c = geos::Coordinate->new($x, $y, $z); $p = $gf->createPoint($c); ok($p->{x} == $x); ok($p->{y} == $y); 5. created very standard Makefile.PL: use ExtUtils::MakeMaker; WriteMakefile( NAME => 'geos', LD => "g++", LIBS => "-lgeos.dll", INC => '-I../../source/headers', OBJECT => 'geos_wrap.o' ); and ran "perl Makefile.PL", which produces the Makefile. That I had to fix with -Wl,--enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc in the dynamic_lib section in the $(LD) commands (this could perhaps be fixed already in the Makefile.PL) Then I just ran "dmake test", which builds the Perl module and runs the test script. I'll probably do more tests with the module later, but this looks promising -- and the annoying things that I had to fix are assumably non-problems under Linux. Thanks for Sean and Charlie for setting up the environment. Regards, Ari -- Prof. Ari Jolma Kartografia ja Geoinformatiikka / Cartography and Geoinformatics Teknillinen Korkeakoulu / Helsinki University of Technology POBox 1200, 02015 TKK, Finland Email: ari.jolma at tkk.fi URL: http://www.tkk.fi/~jolma _______________________________________________ geos-devel mailing list geos-devel@geos.refractions.net http://geos.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/geos-devel