Contents
Installed Programs:
swig and ccache-swig
Installed Library:
None
Installed Directories:
/usr/share/doc/swig-4.1.1 and
/usr/share/swig
SWIG-4.1.1
Introduction to SWIG
SWIG (Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator) is a compiler that integrates C and C++ with languages including Perl, Python, Tcl, Ruby, PHP, Java, C#, D, Go, Lua, Octave, R, Scheme, and Ocaml. SWIG can also export its parse tree into Lisp s-expressions and XML.
SWIG reads annotated C/C++ header files and creates wrapper code (glue code) in order to make the corresponding C/C++ libraries available to the listed languages, or to extend C/C++ programs with a scripting language.
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Note
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Package Information
Download (HTTP): https://downloads.sourceforge.net/swig/swig-4.1.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: c7d55a1bca26752f3846c85b43c1a69c
Download size: 8.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 82 MB (2.1 GB with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (add 7.8 SBU for tests; both using parallelism=4)
SWIG Dependencies
Required
Optional
Boost-1.83.0 for tests, and any of the languages mentioned in the introduction, as run-time dependencies
Installation of SWIG
Install SWIG by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--without-javascript \
--without-maximum-compile-warnings &&
make
To test the results, issue: PY3=1 make -k check TCL_INCLUDE=.
The unsetting of the variable TCL_INCLUDE is
necessary since it is not correctly set by
configure. The tests are only executed for the
languages installed on your machine, so the disk space and SBU values
given for the tests may vary, and should be considered as mere orders of
magnitude. According to
SWIG's documentation, the failure of some
tests should not be considered harmful. The go tests are buggy and may
generate a lot of meaningless output.
Now, as the root user:
make install && install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/swig-4.1.1 && cp -v -R Doc/* /usr/share/doc/swig-4.1.1
Command Explanations
--without-maximum-compile-warnings: disables
compiler ansi conformance enforcement, which triggers errors in
the Lua headers (starting with Lua 5.3).
--without-<language>: allows disabling the
building of tests and examples for <language>, but all the
languages capabilities of SWIG are always
built.