source: general/prog/swig.xml@ 86b75272

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  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
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  <title>SWIG-&swig-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="swig">
    <primary sortas="a-swig">SWIG</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <!--Required section-->
  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to SWIG</title>

    <para>
       <application>SWIG</application> (Simplified Wrapper and Interface
       Generator) is a compiler that integrates <application>C</application>
       and <application>C++</application> with languages including
       <application>Perl</application>, <application>Python</application>,
       <application>Tcl</application>, <application>Ruby</application>,
       <application>PHP</application>, <application>Java</application>,
       <application>C#</application>, <application>D</application>,
       <application>Go</application>, <application>Lua</application>,
       <application>Octave</application>, <application>R</application>,
       <application>Scheme</application>, <application>Ocaml</application>,
       <application>Modula-3</application>,
       <application>Common Lisp</application>, and
       <application>Pike</application>. <application>SWIG</application> can
       also export its parse tree into <application>Lisp</application>
       s-expressions and <application>XML</application>.
    </para>
    <para>
       <application>SWIG</application> reads annotated
       <application>C/C++</application> header files and creates wrapper
       code (glue code) in order to make the corresponding
       <application>C/C++</application> libraries available to the listed
       languages, or to extend <application>C/C++</application> programs
       with a scripting language.
    </para>

    &lfs76_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&swig-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&swig-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &swig-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &swig-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &swig-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &swig-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">SWIG Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="pcre"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="boost"/> for tests, and any of the languages mentionned
      in the introduction, as run-time dependencies
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
      User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/swig"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of SWIG</title>

    <para>
      Fix an issue with gccgo-4.9.2:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -e 's/"\.")/"_")/' -i Source/Modules/go.cxx</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Install <application>SWIG</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

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<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr                      \
            --without-clisp                    \
            --without-maximum-compile-warnings &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>make -k check</command>. If you
      have both <xref linkend="python2"/> and <xref linkend="python3"/>
      installed, only the Python-2 tests are run. You can run test for
      Python-3 by issuing <command>PY3=1 make check-python-examples</command>
      followed by <command>PY3=1 make check-python-test-suite</command>.
      According to <application>SWIG</application>'s documentation, the failure
      of some tests should not be considered harmful.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/swig-&swig-version; &amp;&amp;
cp -v -R Doc/* /usr/share/doc/swig-&swig-version;</userinput></screen>
  </sect2>

  <!--Optional section-->
  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <parameter>--without-maximum-compile-warnings</parameter>: disables
      compiler ansi conformance enforcement, which triggers errors in
      the <application>Lua</application> headers (starting with Lua 5.3).
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--without-&lt;language&gt;</option>: allows disabling the
      building of tests and examples for &lt;language&gt;, but all the
      languages capabilities of <application>SWIG</application> are always
      built. We use it for <application>Clisp</application>, because the
      SWIG implementation is very incomplete and a lot of tests fail.
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          swig and ccache-swig
        </seg>
        <seg>
          None
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/share/swig/&swig-version; and
          /usr/share/doc/swig-&swig-version;
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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      <varlistentry id="swig-prog">
        <term><command>swig</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            takes an interface file containing C/C++ declarations and
            SWIG special instructions, and generates the corresponding
            wrapper code needed to build extension modules.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="swig swig-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-swig">swig</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="ccache-swig">
        <term><command>ccache-swig</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a compiler cache, which speeds up re-compilation of
            C/C++/SWIG code.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="swig ccache-swig">
            <primary sortas="b-ccache-swig">ccache-swig</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
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