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author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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date | Sat Sep 03 09:28:15 2022 +0000 (2022-09-03) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/swig/description.txt Sat Sep 03 09:28:15 2022 +0000 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ 1.4 +SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in 1.5 +C and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages. 1.6 +SWIG is used with different types of target languages including common 1.7 +scripting languages such as Javascript, Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl and Ruby. 1.8 +The list of supported languages also includes non-scripting languages 1.9 +such as C#, D, Go language, Java including Android, Lua, OCaml, Octave, 1.10 +Scilab and R. 1.11 +Also several interpreted and compiled Scheme implementations (Guile, 1.12 +MzScheme/Racket) are supported. 1.13 +SWIG is most commonly used to create high-level interpreted or compiled 1.14 +programming environments, user interfaces, and as a tool for testing and 1.15 +prototyping C/C++ software. 1.16 +SWIG is typically used to parse C/C++ interfaces and generate the 1.17 +'glue code' required for the above target languages to call into the 1.18 +C/C++ code. 1.19 +SWIG can also export its parse tree in the form of XML. 1.20 +SWIG is free software and the code that SWIG generates is compatible 1.21 +with both commercial and non-commercial projects.