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Re: One other thing
- To: mtiller@ford.com
- Subject: Re: One other thing
- From: Stan Shebs <shebs@cygnus.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 18:49:54 -0700
- CC: xconq7@cygnus.com
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 12:48:08 -0400
From: "Michael M. Tiller" <mtiller@ford.com>
Has anybody considered using SWIG? Check out http://www.swig.org for
more information.
Basically, SWIG is a wrapper generator that can read C/C++ header
files and generate wrapper code to various scripting languages like
Tcl, Perl and Python. SWIG is useful even if you only intend to use
one scripting language because it does lots of tedious code
generation.
I took a look. I'm not sure if it's quite what we need here - Xconq
needs a bunch of C code that is closely interleaved with the GUI code,
and SWIG looks more oriented towards "C code as black boxes". Still,
it's cool that you get a choice of scripting languages supported.
There seem to be quite a few happy users, and I'm still going through
the testimonials... -s