SWIG (Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator) is a compiler that integrates C and C++ with languages including Perl, Python, Tcl, Ruby, PHP, Java, JavaScript, C#, D, Go, Lua, Octave, R, Racket, Scilab, 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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Download (HTTP): https://downloads.sourceforge.net/swig/swig-4.2.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 4d03374a2c30367699fa0928e1d901e8
Download size: 8.0 MB
Estimated disk space required: 106 MB (2.2 GB with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (add 10.0 SBU for tests; both using parallelism=4)
Boost-1.84.0 for tests, and any of the languages mentioned in the introduction, as run-time dependencies
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 TCL_INCLUDE= -k check. 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 && cp -v -R Doc -T /usr/share/doc/swig-4.2.0
--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. This switch is used for JavaScript because the SWIG implementation is incomplete and a lot of tests fail due to API changes in Node-20.