SWIG for Octave: Octave-SWIG.

[John W. Eaton]

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On  3-Jun-2005, Muthiah Annamalai wrote:

| Hello there!
| Ive been thinking, and tried [lazily]
| to port SWIG [www.swig.org] to Octave.

Yes, that might be a good thing to do.  But have you looked at
matwrap?

| USE CASE:
| ========
| With SWIG, "building" binding is easy like this.
| 
| 1: Write a library.i file for that 'library' you need
| to port.
|    emacs library.i /usr/include/library/* &
| 
| 2: Run SWIG on it.
|    swig -octave library.i
| 
| 3: Compile it to a library.oct file.
|    mkoctfile library.cc
| 
| 4: Presto! use it in Octave.
|    octave -q test_library.m

Yes, something like this can get you going quickly, but for languages
like Octave, a thin wrapper to C code is not always the best
interface.  For that, you will likely still have to do more work
unless the interface definition contains more information than you
would find in a C header file for the given library.

jwe



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