swig.txt

Associated article: SWIG and Automated C/C++ Scripting Extensions

Tags: C/C++     Tools     Open Source    

Published source code accompanying the article by David Beazley in which he discusses SWIG, short for "Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator"--a freely-available tool that lets you generate interfaces to a variety of scripting languages from a common interface description. Also see SWIG1_1.ZIP.

					SWIG: Automated C/C++ Scripting Extensions
by David Beazley


Example 1:

// example.i : Sample SWIG interface file
%module example
extern int fact(int);

Example 2:

(a)
use example;
print example::fact(4);
24

(b)
>>> import example
>>> example.fact(4)
24
&...