swig - swig <options> filename
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NAME
swig <options> filename
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/swig -help [ For commandline help ]
DESCRIPTION
swig - The Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator (swig) is an open
source code interface compiler that connects programs written in C and
C++ with scripting languages such as Perl, Python, Ruby, and Tcl. It
works by taking the declarations found in C/C++ header files and using
them to generate the wrapper code that scripting languages need to
access the underlying C/C++ code. In addition, SWIG provides a variety
of customization features that let you tailor the wrapping process to
suit your application.
SWIG is used in a number of ways:
Building more powerful C/C++ programs. Using SWIG, you can replace the
main() function of a C program with a scripting interpreter from which
you can control the application. This adds quite a lot of flexibility
and makes the program "programmable." That is, the scripting interface
allows users and developers to easily modifiy the behavior of the pro-
gram without having to modify low-level C/C++ code. The benefits of
this are numerous. In fact think of all of the large software packages
that you use every day---nearly all of them include special a macro
language, configuration language, or even a scripting engine that
allows users to make customizations.
Rapid prototyping and debugging. SWIG allows C/C++ programs to be
placed in a scripting environment that can be used for testing and
debugging. For example, you might test a library with a collection of
scripts or use the scripting interpreter as an interactive debugger.
Since SWIG requires no modifications to the underlying C/C++ code, it
can be used even if the final product does not rely upon scripting.
Systems integration. Scripting languages work fairly well for control-
ling and gluing loosely-coupled software components together. With
SWIG, different C/C++ programs can be turned into scripting language
extension modules. These modules can then be combined together to cre-
ate new and interesting applications.
Construction of scripting language extension modules. SWIG can be used
to turn common C/C++ libraries into components for use in popular
scripting languages. Of course, you will still want to make sure that
no-one else has already created a module before doing this.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | developer/swig |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Volatile |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
Installed documentation: /usr/share/swig/1.3.35/doc
Additional online documentation in HTML and PDF formats for swig:
User Manual: http://www.swig.org/Doc1.1/HTML/Contents.html
Developer Doc: http://www.swig.org/Doc1.3/index.html
Quick start Tutorial: http://www.swig.org/tutorial.html
SWIG WIKI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWIG
The Latest full source download: http://www.swig.org/download.html
AUTHOR
swig was originally written by Dave Beazley, and is now maintained and
developed by an team of developers see:
http://www.swig.org/guilty.html. Further details are available at
http://www.swig.org/index.html. swig is released under the swig
License.
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from http://iweb.dl.source-
forge.net/project/swig/swig/swig-1.3.35/swig-1.3.35.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://www.swig.org/.
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