Difference between revisions of "Swig"

Revision as of 00:38, 19 August 2009

Description

SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages. SWIG is used with different types of languages including common scripting languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl and Ruby.

Instructions for Mac OS X

• The SWIG executable which is provided by Apple (/usr/bin/swig, version 1.3.31) is too old, at least for the lua Lua bindings. For Python and Java there is maybe no need to install a new version of swig.
• Download SWIG 1.3.40 tar file
• Untar swig-1.3.40.tar.gz into a folder of your choice
• Cd into the folder and create a build folder

mkdir build
cd build

• Configure, build and install SWIG. Omit the --prefix flag if you intend to install swig in the standard path (/usr/local)

./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/swig-1.3.40
make && make install

• If you installed SWIG to a nonstandard location add the bin directory to the path by editing your .profile file in your home directory. Add the following lines

# add swig to PATH
export PATH=$HOME/local/swig-1.3.40/bin:$PATH

Instructions for Linux

N/A

Instructions for Windows

• Download SWIG zip
• Unzip swigwin-1.3.36.zip into a folder of your choice

Set CMake paths

• set environment variables (for MinGW and Visual C++) and add SWIG directory to PATH

set SWIGDIR=C:\tools\swigwin-1.3.36
set PATH=%SWIGDIR%;%PATH%
set CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=%SWIGDIR%\lib;%CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH%

CMake is now able to find SWIG.