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| author | hollywoodb <hollywoodb@fastmail.fm> | 2010-05-11 14:05:53 +0200 |
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| committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2010-05-11 14:05:53 +0200 |
| commit | a1ee41f337e2fd182047b822c2ff4a4943b2417c (patch) | |
| tree | 6ef230b67a2dbeb09fd5e0d2a2fa6ee541d288f4 /development/swig/README | |
| parent | 529ccd9e1f5ab98bfca9c2a48347333c158d06ba (diff) | |
development/swig: Initial import
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diff --git a/development/swig/README b/development/swig/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..61c0607421c8d --- /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 + |