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diff --git a/development/swig/README b/development/swig/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..61c0607421 --- /dev/null +++ b/development/swig/README @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +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, Ruby and PHP. The list of supported +languages also includes non-scripting languages such as C#, Common Lisp +(CLISP, Allegro CL, CFFI, UFFI), Java, Modula-3 and OCAML. Also several +interpreted and compiled Scheme implementations (Guile, MzScheme, Chicken) are +supported. SWIG is most commonly used to create high-level interpreted or +compiled programming environments, user interfaces, and as a tool for testing +and prototyping C/C++ software. SWIG can also export its parse tree in the +form of XML and Lisp s-expressions. + +swig may build with support for the following: + Tcl, Python, Perl, Java, GCJ, Guile, MzScheme, Ruby, PHP4, ocaml, Pike + Chicken (csc/csi), C#, Lua, Allegro CL, clisp, R + |