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The Stable Development Branch
=============================
In this CVS branch "mkoeppe-1-3-a5-patches", fixes in the SWIG core
and improvements to the language modules take place, starting from the
relatively stable release 1.3a5. It works towards the new stable
release 1.3.6.
In this CVS branch "rel-1-3", fixes in the SWIG core and improvements
to the language modules take place, starting from the stable release
1.3.6.
This branch is also the basis for the "swig1.3" Debian package
(currently unofficial, available from
http://www.math.uni-magdeburg.de/~mkoeppe/imo-debian).
Eventually this branch will be merged with the development on the
trunk of the CVS tree.
Eventually this branch will be merged back to the trunk of the CVS
tree (maybe).
Version 1.3.7 (September 3, 2001)
==================================
9/02/2001: beazley
Added special %ignore directive to ignore declarations. This
feature works exactly like %rename. For example:
%ignore foo; // Ignore all declarations foo
%ignore ::foo; // Only ignore foo in global scope
%ignore Spam::foo; // Only ignore in class Spam
%ignore *::foo; // Ignore in all classes
%ignore can also be parameterized. For example:
%ignore foo(int);
%ignore ::foo(int);
%ignore Spam::foo(int);
%ignore *::foo(int);
*** NEW FEATURE ***
9/02/2001: cheetah (william fulton)
[Java] shadowcode pragma modified so that the code that is output
in the shadow file is placed relative to where it is placed in the
c/c++ code. This allows support for JavaDoc function comments.
9/01/2001: beazley
Fixed SF Patch [ #447791 ] Fix for python -interface option.
Submitted by Tarn Weisner Burton.
9/01/2001: beazley
SWIG no longer generates default constructors/destructors
for a class if it only defines a private/protected constructor
or destructor or if any one of its base classes only has
private constructors/destructors. This was reported in
SF Patch [ #444281 ] nonpublic/default/inhereted ctor/dtor
by Marcelo Matus.
9/01/2001: beazley
Added patch to Perl5 module that allows constants to be
wrapped as constants that don't require the leading $.
This feature is enabled using the -const option.
Patch contributed by Rich Wales.
*** NEW FEATURE ***
8/31/2001: beazley
Added parsing support for the 'volatile' type qualifier.
volatile doesn't mean anything to SWIG, but it is
needed to properly generate prototypes for declarations
that use it. It's also been added to make the SWIG type
system more complete.
*** NEW FEATURE ***
8/30/2001: beazley
Added support for parameterized %rename directive. *** This
new feature can be used to greatly simplify the task of
resolving overloaded methods and functions. ***
In prior versions of SWIG, the %rename directive was
used to consistently apply an identifier renaming. For
example, if you said this:
%rename foo bar;
Every occurrence of 'foo' would be renamed to 'bar'.
Although this works fine for resolving a conflict with a
target language reserved word, it is useless for
for dealing with overloaded methods. This is because
all methods are simply renamed to the same thing
(generating the same conflict as before).
Therefore, the only way to deal with overloaded methods
was to go through and individually rename them all using
%name. For example:
class Foo {
public:
virtual void bar(void);
%name(bar_i) virtual void bar(int);
...
};
To make matters worse, you had to do this for all
derived classes too.
class Spam : public Foo {
public:
virtual void bar(void);
%name(bar_i) virtual void bar(int);
...
};
Needless to say, this makes it extremely hard to resolve
overloading without a lot of work and makes it almost
impossible to use SWIG on raw C++ .h files.
To fix this, %rename now accepts parameter declarators.
The syntax has also been changed slightly. For example,
the following declaration renames all occurrences of 'bar(int)'
to 'bar_i', leaving any other occurrence of 'bar' alone.
%rename(bar_i) bar(int);
Using this feature, you can now selectively rename
certain declarations in advance. For example:
%rename(bar_i) bar(int);
%rename(bar_d) bar(double);
// Include raw C++ header
%include "header.h"
When %rename is used in this manner, all occurrence of bar(int)
are renamed wherever they might occur. More control is obtained
through explicit qualification. For example,
%rename(bar_i) ::bar(int);
only applies the renaming if bar(int) is defined in the global scope.
The declaration,
%rename(bar_i) Foo::bar(int);
applies the renaming if bar(int) is defined in a class Foo.
This latter form also supports inheritance. Therefore, if you
had a class like this:
class Spam : public Foo {
public:
void bar(int);
}
The Spam::bar(int) method would also be renamed (since Spam
is a subclass of Foo). This latter feature makes it easy
for SWIG to apply a consistent renaming across an entire
class hierarchy simply by specifying renaming rules for
the base class.
A class wildcard of * can be used if you want to renaming
all matching members of all classes. For example:
%rename(bar_i) *::bar(int);
will rename all members bar(int) that are defined in classes.
It will not renamed definitions of bar(int) in the global
scope.
The old use of %rename is still supported, but is somewhat
enhanced.
%rename(foo) bar; // Renames all occurrences of 'bar'.
%rename(foo) ::bar; // Rename all 'bar' in global scope only.
%rename(foo) *::bar; // Rename all 'bar' in classes only.
%rename(foo) Foo::bar; // Rename all 'bar' defined in class Foo.
*** NEW FEATURE ***
8/30/2001: beazley
Added support for data-member to member-function
transformation. For example, suppose you had a
structure like this:
struct Vector {
double x,y;
};
Now suppose that you wanted to access x and y
through a member function interface instead
of the usual SWIG behavior. For example:
f.set_x(3.4) # instead of f.x = 3.4
x = f.get_x() # instead of x = f.x
To do this, simply use the new %attributefunc
directive. For example:
%attributefunc(get_%s,set_%s)
struct Vector {
double x,y;
};
%noattributefunc
The arguments to %attributefunc are C-style printf
format strings that determine the naming convention
to use. %s is replaced with the actual name of the
data member. SWIG provides a number of printf
extensions that might help. For example, if you
wanted to title case all of the attributes, you
could do this:
%attributefunc(get%(title)s,set%(title)s);
This will turn an attribute 'bar' to 'getBar()' and 'setBar()'.
(someone requested this long ago, but I finally figured
how to implement it in a straightforward manner).
*** NEW FEATURE ***
8/30/2001: beazley
SWIG now automatically generates default constructors
and destructors if none are defined. This used to be
enabled with a command line switch -make_default, but
most people want these functions anyways. To turn
off this behavior use the -no_default option or include
the following pragma in the interface file:
%pragma no_default;
This may break certain interfaces that defined their
own constructors/destructors using the same naming
convention as SWIG. If so, you will get duplicate
symbols when compiling the SWIG wrapper file.
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
8/29/2001: beazley
Changes to Perl5 shadow class code generation. Iterators
are no longer supported (FIRSTKEY, NEXTKEY). Also, attribute
access has been changed to rely on inheritance in order
to provide better behavior across modules.
8/28/2001: beazley
Various obscure improvements to the type system and classes.
Strange declarations like this are now wrapped correctly
(i.e., the generated wrapper code doesn't cause the C++
compiler to die with a type error).
class Foo {
public:
typedef double Real;
Real foo(Real (*op)(Real,Real), Real x, Real y);
};
Inheritance of types is also handled correctly.
8/28/2001: beazley
Changes to class wrappers. When SWIG sees two classes like this,
class X {
public:
void foo();
...
}
class Y : public X {
public:
void bar();
...
}
it now only generates two wrapper functions:
X_foo(X *x) { x->foo(); }
Y_bar(Y *y) { y->bar(); }
Unlike SWIG1.15, the foo() method does *not* propagate to a wrapper
function Y_foo(). Instead, the base class method X_foo() must be
used.
This change should not affect modules that use shadow classes, but
it might break modules that directly use the low-level C wrappers.
This change is being made for a number of reasons:
- It greatly simplifies the implementation of SWIG--especially
with anticipated future changes such as overloaded methods.
- It results in substantially less wrapper code--especially
for big C++ class hierarchies (inherited declarations
are no longer copied into every single derived class).
- It allows for better code generation across multiple
SWIG generated modules (code isn't replicated in
every single module).
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
8/22/2001: cheetah (william fulton)
Provided some Windows documentation in the Win directory and some
Visual C++ project files for running examples on Windows.
8/28/2001: mkoeppe
[Guile] Handle renamed overloaded functions properly;
thanks to Marc Zonzon <Marc.Zonzon@univ-rennes1.fr> for the
patch. See the new test case name_cxx.
8/27/2001: mkoeppe
[Tcl] Removed lots of warnings issued by the Sun Forte
compilers, which were caused by mixing function pointers
of different linkages (C++/C).
8/23/2001: mkoeppe
Improved the MzScheme module by porting Guile's pointer
type checking system and making type dispatch
typemap-driven.
8/22/2001: beazley
Entirely new symbol table processing. SWIG should be able to
report much better error messages for multiple declarations.
Also, the new symbol table allows for overloaded functions
(although overloading isn't quite supported in the language
modules yet).
8/22/2001: cheetah (william fulton)
* [Java] %new support added.
* [Java] Package JNI name refixed!
8/19/2001: beazley
Python module modified to support pointers to C++ members. This
is an experimental feature.
*** NEW FEATURE ***
8/19/2001: beazley
Added limited parsing and full type-system support for pointers to
members. None of SWIG's language modules really know how to deal with
this so this is really only provided for completeness and future
expansion. Note: SWIG does not support pointers to members which
are themselves pointers to members, references to pointers to members,
or other complicated declarations like this.
*** NEW FEATURE ***
8/19/2001: beazley
SWIG is much better at parsing certain C++ declarations. Operators and
friends generally don't cause anymore syntax errors. However, neither
are really supported.
8/18/2001: beazley
Added *highly* experimental support for wrapping of C++
template declarations. Since C++ templates are essentially
glorified macros and SWIG has a fully operational C
preprocessor with macro support, the parser now converts
template declarations to macros. For example, a function
template like this
template<class T> T max(T a, T b);
is internally converted into a macro like this:
%define %_template_max(__name,T)
%name(__name) T max(T a, T b);
%enddef
To instantiate a version of the template, a special %template declaration
is used like this:
%template(maxint) max<int>;
%template(maxdouble) max<double>;
The parameter to the %template directive must be proper C identifier that's
used to uniquely name the resulting instantiation. When used, the
the expanded macro looks like this:
%name(maxint) int max(int a, int b);
%name(maxdouble) double max(double a, double b);
A similar technique is used for template classes. For instance:
template<class T> class vector {
T *data;
int sz;
public:
vector(int nitems);
T *get(int n);
...
};
Gets converted into a macro like this:
%define %_template_vector(__name, T)
%{
typedef vector<T> __name;
%}
class __name {
T *data;
int sz;
public:
__name(int nitems);
T *get(int n);
...
};
typedef __name vector<T>;
%enddef
An a specific instantiation is created in exactly the same way:
%template(intvec) vector<int>;
The resulting code parsed by SWIG is then:
%{
typedef vector<int> intvec;
%}
class intvec {
int *data;
int sz;
public:
intvec(int nitems);
int *get(int n);
...
};
typedef intvec vector<int>;
Note: the last typedef is non-standard C and is used by SWIG to provide
an association between the name "intvec" and the template type
"vector<int>".
CAUTION: This is an experimental feature and the first time SWIG has
supported C++ templates. Error reporting is essential non-existent.
It will probably break in certain cases.
*** EXPERIMENTAL NEW FEATURE ****
8/15/2001: beazley
Change to wrapping of multi-dimensional arrays. Arrays
are now properly mapped to a pointer to an array of
one less dimension. For example:
int [10]; --> int *
int [10][20]; --> int (*)[20];
int [10][20][30]; --> int (*)[20][30];
This change may break certain SWIG extensions because
older versions simply mapped all arrays into a single
pointer such as "int *". Although possibly unusual,
the new version is correct in terms of the C type system.
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
8/06/2001: cheetah (william fulton)
* [Java] Array setters generated for struct/class array members.
8/13/2001: beazley
Many improvements to Tcl/Perl/Python modules to better
work with multiple interface files and the %import directive.
8/13/2001: beazley
Fixed up the behavior of %import in the Python module.
SWIG no longer pollutes the module namespace by using
'from module import *' to refer to the other module.
Instead, it does a proper 'import module'. Also, SWIG
may work a lot better when importing modules that include
references to other imported modules.
8/13/2001: mkoeppe
Added new typemap substitutions, generalizing those of the
Guile-specific 5/27/2001 changes:
* $descriptor is the same as SWIGTYPE$mangle, but also
ensures that the type descriptor of this name gets
defined.
* $*type, $*ltype, $*mangle, $*descriptor are the same as
the variants without star, but they REMOVE one level of
pointers from the type. (This is only valid for pointer
types.)
* $&type, $&ltype, $&mangle, $&descriptor are the same as
the variants without ampersand, but they ADD one level of
pointers to the type.
The Guile-specific substitution $basedescriptor was removed
because it was useless.
8/12/2001: beazley
The %extern directive is now deprecated and withdrawn. The
purpose of this directive was to import selected definitions
from other interface files and headers. However, the same
functionality is better handled through %import. This
leaves SWIG with two file inclusion directives:
%include filename - Inserts into current interface
%import filename - Import types and classes from
another module
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
8/09/2001: beazley
Added new support for wrapping C/C++ callback functions.
A common problem with some C libraries is that many
functions take a function pointer as an argument. For example:
int do_op(..., int (*op)(int,int), ...);
Unfortunately, the only way to call such a function is to
pass it a function pointer of some compatible type. In
previous versions of SWIG, you had to solve this problem
with some really gross hacks. For example, if you wanted to
use the following function as a callback,
int foo(int, int);
you had to install a pointer to it as a constant. For example:
%constant int (*FOO)(int,int) = foo;
or
const int (*FOO)(int,int) = foo;
or if you had a really old SWIG version:
typedef int (*OP_FUNC)(int,int);
int do_op(..., OP_FUNC, ...);
const OP_FUNC FOO = foo;
Now, you can do one of two things:
%constant int foo(int,int);
This creates a constant 'foo' of type int (*)(int,int).
Alternatively, you can do this:
%callback("%s")
int foo(int,int);
int bar(int,int);
%nocallback
In this case, the functions are installed as constants where
the name is defined by the format string given to %callback().
If the names generated by the format string differ from the
actual function name, both a function wrapper and a callback
constant are created. For example:
%callback("%(upper)s")
int foo(int,int);
int bar(int,int);
%nocallback
Creates two wrapper functions 'foo', 'bar' and additionally
creates two callback constants 'FOO', 'BAR'.
Note: SWIG still does not provide automatic support for
writing callback functions in the target language.
*** NEW FEATURE ***
8/06/2001: cheetah (william fulton)
* struct nesting fixes as per SF bug #447488.
8/03/2001: beazley
The %name directive now applies to constants created with
#define and %constant. However, most language modules
were never written to support this and will have to be
modified to make it work. Tcl, Python, and Perl modules
are working now.
*** NEW FEATURE ***
8/03/2001: beazley
Massive changes and simplification of C declaration parsing.
Although SWIG is still not a full C parser, its ability
to handle complex datatypes including pointers to functions
and pointers to arrays has been vastly improved.
8/03/2001: cheetah (william fulton)
* Distribution fixes: autoconf no longer needed to install SWIG.
8/02/2001: beazley
Removed two undocumented parsing features. SWIG no longer
supports out-of-class static function or variable
declarations. For example:
static int Foo::bar;
This feature may return if there is sufficient demand.
However, since SWIG is most often used with header files,
it is more likely for these definitions to be included
in the class definition.
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
8/02/2001: cheetah (william fulton)
* Cleanup of the GIFPlot examples. Upgraded Java GIFPlot example.
8/01/2001: cheetah (william fulton)
* [Java] Efficiency changes: _cPtr used where possible rather than
getCPtr(). Bug fixes for inheritance - derived class sometimes
didn't delete the c memory when _delete() was called.
* [Java] Abstract c++ classes are wrapped with a java abstract shadow
class. Also a pure virtual function is mapped with an abstract method.
* The default output file has always been <module>_wrap.c. It is now
<module>_wrap.cxx if the -c++ commandline option is passed to swig.
This has been done as otherwise c++ code would appear in a c file.
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
7/31/2001: beazley
Modified the %constant directive to be more C-like in syntax.
The syntax is now:
%constant NAME = VALUE;
%constant TYPE NAME = VALUE;
For example:
%constant Foo *Bar = &Spam;
A more subtle case is as follows:
%constant int (*FOO)(int,int) = blah;
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** Modules that were using
the %constant directive directly will need to be modified.
7/30/2001: beazley
Removed obscure and undocumented form of the %inline directive:
%inline int blah(int a, int b) {
...
}
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
(note: this feature was never documented and is withdrawn)
7/30/2001: beazley
Removed support for functions with no explicitly declared
return type. For example:
foo(int);
In C, such functions were implicitly assumed to return an 'int'.
In C++, this is illegal. Either way, it's considered bad
style. Removing support for this in SWIG will simplify
certain issues in parsing.
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
7/30/2001: mkoeppe
* Partial merge from the CVS trunk. The Source/DOH directory
and most of the Source/Swig directory is up-to-date now.
* [Guile] %scheme is now a macro for %insert("scheme").
New syntax: %scheme "FILENAME";
New syntax: %scheme %{ SCHEME-CODE %}
New macros %multiple_values, %values_as_list,
%values_as_vector.
7/29/2001: beazley
%readonly and %readwrite have been turned into SWIG pragmas.
%pragma(swig) readonly and %pragma(swig) readwrite. Macros
are used to provide backwards compatibility.
7/29/2001: beazley
Minor changes to %pragma directive. %pragma must always
be directed to a specific language. For example:
%pragma(swig) make_default;
%pragma(perl5) include = "blah.i";
Also extended the pragma directive to allow code blocks
%pragma(foo) code = %{
... some code ...
%}
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
7/29/2001: beazley
Change to the way 'const' variables are wrapped. In
previous versions of SWIG, a 'const' variable was
wrapped as a constant. Now, 'const' variables are
wrapped as read-only variables. There are several
reasons for making this change, mostly pertaining to
subtle details of how 'const' actually works.
This will probably break old interfaces that used 'const'
to create constants. As a replacement, consider using this:
const int a = 4; ===> %constant(int) a = 4;
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
7/29/2001: beazley
Reorganization and simplification of type parsing.
Types with 'const' should work correctly now.
7/29/2001: beazley
Most swig directives related to the documentation system
are now deprecated.
7/29/2001: beazley
Removed support for Objective-C in order to simplify
parser reconstruction. Will return if there is sufficient
demand.
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
7/29/2001: beazley
Code inclusion has been modified in the parser. A common
directive %insert is now used for everything. This
inserts a file into the output:
%insert(header) "foo.swg"
This inserts some inline code into the output
%insert(header) %{
... some code ...
%}
There are five predefined targets for the insert directive:
"header" - Header section of wrapper file
"runtime" - Runtime section of wrapper file
"wrapper" - Wrapper section
"init" - Initialization function
"null" - Nothing. Discard.
The following directives are still supported, but are
now defined in terms of macros:
%{ ... %} -> %insert(header) %{ ... %}
%init %{ ... %} -> %insert(init) %{ ... %}
%wrapper %{ ... %} -> %insert(wrapper) %{ ... %}
%runtime %{ ... %} -> %insert(runtime) %{ ... %}
Language modules can define new named targets by using the
C API function Swig_register_filebyname() (see main.cxx).
For example, if you wanted to expose a shadow class file,
you could do this:
Swig_register_filebyname("shadow", f_shadow);
Then in the interface file:
%insert(shadow) %{ ... %}
Note: this change should not affect any old interfaces, but
does open up new possibilities for enhancements.
7/29/2001: beazley
SWIG now always includes a standard library file 'swig.swg'.
This file defines a large number of macro definitions
that define the behavior of various SWIG directives.
Previously, all SWIG directives were handled as special
cases in the parser. This made the parser a large
bloated mess. Now, the parser is stripped down to a few
simple directives and macros are used to handle everything else.
7/26/2001: cheetah (william fulton)
* Fixes for Sourceforge bug #444748 - new testcase cpp_static:
[TCL] Class with just static member variable/function fix
[Java] Fixed static variables support
[Ruby] Static variables workaround removed
7/27/2001: mkoeppe
* stype.c (SwigType_default): Strip qualifiers first. The
default type of "int * const" is now "SWIGPOINTER *".
* main.cxx: Define "__cplusplus" in SWIG's preprocessor if
in C++ mode.
* [Guile]: Added some support for arrays and C++
references, fixing the "constant_pointers" test case.
* Moved most tests from the old Guile-specific test-suite
to the new test-suite. Also moved perl5/pointer-cxx
example there.
7/26/2001: cheetah (william fulton)
* Test-suite added.
* Initial testcases: constant_pointers cpp_enum defines
sizeof_pointers unions virtual_destructor
* Make clean improvements.
7/24/2001: cheetah (william fulton)
* [Java] Underscores in the package name and/or module name
no longer give linking problems.
7/17/2001: cheetah (william fulton)
* More parser bug fixes for constant pointers
7/19/2001: mkoeppe
* [Guile] Aesthetic improvement in variable wrappers.
7/18/2001: beazley
* Fixed core-dump problem in pointer library when
freeing character arrays.
SF Bug [ #415837 ] pointer lib core dump
7/18/2001: beazley
* Fixed problem with default destructors and shadow
classes. SF bug #221128.
7/18/2001: beazley
* To provide better line-number tracking in interfaces
with lots of macros, special locator comments are
now generated by the SWIG preprocessor. For example:
/*@foo.i,42,BLAH@*/expanded macro/*@@*/
The first /*@...@*/ sequence sets the context
to point to the macro code. The /*@@*/ comment
terminates the context. The SWIG parser should
ignore all of the locator comments as should
the C compiler (should such comments end up
in generated wrapper code).
7/18/2001: mkoeppe
* The parser now handles severely constified types in
typemaps. This introduced a new shift/reduce conflict, but
only with a heuristic function-pointer catch-all rule.
* [Guile]: Added typemaps for severely constified types.
* Fixed the "template-whitespace" problem by canonicalizing
whitespace, especially around angle brackets and commas.
7/17/2001: mkoeppe
* [Guile]: A Scheme file is emitted if the -scmstub FILE.SCM
command-line option is used. The %scheme directive
(implemented as a macro for a pragma) allows to insert
arbitrary code here. In "simple" and "passive" linkage,
the file gets filled with define-module and export
declarations.
7/17/2001: cheetah (william fulton)
* Parser bug fix to support constant pointers, eg int* const ptr.
Fixed everywhere - variables, parameters, return types etc. Note that
when wrapping a constant pointer variable only the getter is generated.
7/17/2001: mkoeppe
* Fixed SF bug #441470 (#define X "//" would not be parsed,
see test-suite entry "preproc-1"), reported by T. W. Burton
<twburton@users.sf.net>.
* Changed the type of character constants to "char", rather
than "char *". Changed the individual language modules
to keep the old behaviour, except for the Guile module,
where it is desired to make them Scheme characters. This
fixes SF bug #231409, test-suite entry "char-constant".
* Applied patch for DOH/Doh/memory.c by Les Schaffer
<schaffer@optonline.net> (avoid required side effects in
assert).
7/17/2001: cheetah (william fulton)
* Bug fix in parser for virtual destructor with void as parameter
* Bug fix in parser #defines embedded within classes/structs/unions
Consequently %constant can now also be placed within a struct/class/union.
* Bug fix in parser to allow sizeof(*I_am_a_pointer) within a #define
7/16/2001: mkoeppe
* Added changes for the Macintosh contributed by Luigi
Ballabio <ballabio@mac.com>.
* Some "const" fixes in the code.
* [Guile]: Made the constant-wrapper functions much shorter.
7/13/2001: mkoeppe
* [Guile]: Some "const" fixes for Guile version 1.3.4.
* Handle anonymous arguments with default values and static
array members of classes. Both bugs reported by Annalisa Terracina
<annalisa.terracina@datamat.it>; see the files
Examples/guile/test-suite/static-array-member.i and
anonymous-arg.i.
Version 1.3.6 (July 9, 2001)
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SWIG (Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator)
Version: 1.3.6 (July 9, 2001)
Version: 1.3.7 (September 3, 2001)
$Header$
@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ replace versions 1.1p5 and 1.1-883. The guilty parties working on this
are:
Dave Beazley (beazley@cs.uchicago.edu) (SWIG core)
William Fulton (wsf@fultondesigns.co.uk) (Java)
Matthias Köppe (mkoeppe@mail.math.uni-magdeburg.de) (Guile/MzScheme)
Loic Dachary (loic@ceic.com) (Perl5)
William Fulton (wfulton1@motorola.com) (Java)
Thien-Thi Nguyen (ttn@glug.org) (Testing/Misc)
Masaki Fukushima (fukusima@goto.info.waseda.ac.jp) (Ruby)
Matthias Köppe (mkoeppe@mail.math.uni-magdeburg.de) (Guile/MzScheme)
Past contributors (see the CHANGES file for a complete list):
@ -33,10 +33,31 @@ Up-to-date SWIG related information can be found at
http://www.swig.org
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!! IMPORTANT !!!!!!!
!!!!!!! !!!!!!!
!!!!!!! Previous SWIG users should read the documentation !!!!!!!
!!!!!!! file Doc/Manual/SWIG.html before trying to use SWIG1.3 !!!!!!!
!!!!!!! on existing SWIG interfaces. This is the most current !!!!!!!
!!!!!!! documentation that describes new 1.3 features and !!!!!!!
!!!!!!! incompatibilities. !!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What's New?
===========
Here are the most notable changes (so far):
- Support for C++ templates.
- Improvement support for overloaded functions/methods.
- Parsing support for virtually all C/C++ datatypes.
- Pointers to members are now supported in the parser
and by the Python module.
- Improved support for pointers to functions and callbacks.
- SWIG now has a full C preprocessor.
- Code generation for the Tcl and Python modules has been
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- Java, Ruby, and MzScheme modules added.
- Testing framework part of the distribution ("make check" support).
- Testing framework part of the distribution ("make -k check" support).
- A lot of minor bug fixes and cleanup.
- SWIG requires an ANSI C compiler.
- Better Windows support.
Here are a few missing features:
- The SWIG1.1 documentation system is gone and hasn't been
@ -62,6 +85,9 @@ Here are a few missing features:
- The Tcl7.x and Perl4 modules are deprecated and no longer
included.
- The Perl5 module is need in some repair. We are looking for
a maintainer to help us with this.
- A wide variety of old SWIG command-line options and
obscure features are gone.
@ -74,8 +100,8 @@ very substantial modifications to things such as type handling,
typemaps, and wrapper code generation. Therefore, if you are making
extensive use of advanced SWIG features, interfaces written for
SWIG1.1 may not work. We apologize for the inconvenience, but these
changes are needed in order to remove a variety of annoying "features"
of SWIG1.1.
changes are needed in order to fix a number of annoying "features"
in SWIG1.1.
In addition, SWIG1.3 makes no attempt to be compatible with SWIG1.1 at
the C++ API level so language modules written for SWIG1.1 will most
@ -83,25 +109,22 @@ definitely not work with this release.
The files NEW and CHANGES describe in some detail all of the important
changes that have been made to the system. Experienced users would be
advised to read this.
well advised to read this.
Installation
============
Windows
=======
Please see the Win/Windows.html file for instructions on obtaining
and using SWIG on Windows.
Unix Installation
=================
To build and install SWIG, simply type the following:
% ./configure
% make
% make check # this step is optional (see note below)
% make -k check # this step is optional (see note below)
% make install
In addition, if you need to build the runtime libraries, type
the following before doing the 'make install' step above.
% make runtime
If you don't know what the runtime libraries are, don't worry
about this step.
The file INSTALL details more about using configure. Also try
% ./configure --help.
@ -119,19 +142,12 @@ Notes:
before typing 'configure'. In addition, a full build of SWIG requires
the use of bison.
(2) If you are using Windows, the easiest way to install and build
SWIG is to use the Cygwin package (http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/).
Note: Even if you build SWIG using Cygwin, the easier way to
actually use SWIG on Windows is to build your extensions using Visual C++.
The SWIG1.1p5 distribution also contains a number of examples configured
to work with Visual C++ (most of which should also work with SWIG1.3).
(3) 'make check' is a new feature that requires at least one of the target
(3) 'make -k check' is a new feature that requires at least one of the target
languages to be installed and which performs compile/link level testing
of the examples. If it fails, it may mean that you have an uninstalled
language module or that the file 'Examples/Makefile' has been
incorrectly configured. It may also fail due to compiler issues
such as broken C++ compiler. Even if 'make check' fails, there is a
such as broken C++ compiler. Even if 'make -k check' fails, there is a
pretty good chance SWIG still works correctly---you will just have
to mess around with one of the examples and some makefiles first.
@ -141,13 +157,23 @@ The Examples directory contains a variety of examples of using SWIG
and it has some browsable documentation. Simply point your browser to
the file "Example/index.html".
The Examples directory now includes Visual C++ project files for
building some of the examples on Windows (new in SWIG1.3.7).
Documentation
=============
No user documentation is currently included in this release. However,
most of the documentation for SWIG1.1 still applies. This can be
obtained on http://www.swig.org.
The Doc/Manual directory contains the most recent set of updated
documentation for this release. As this is an unstable development
release, the documentation is not quite up to date and is being worked
on. We are working on it, but there is a lot of documentation and it
is going to take time to complete. Please be patient.
There is some technical documentation available in the Doc subdirectory.
! The most up-to-date information concerning new features in SWIG1.3 is the
! file Doc/Manual/SWIG.html.
There is some technical documentation available in the Doc/Devel
subdirectory. This is not necessarily up-to-date, but it has some
information on SWIG internals.
Participate!
============
@ -156,6 +182,10 @@ Please report any errors and submit patches (if possible)! We only
have access to a limited variety of hardware (Linux, Solaris, and
Windows). All contributions help.
Contributions of new language modules will also be accepted.
If you would like to join the SWIG development team or contribute a
language module to the distribution, please contact beazley@cs.uchicago.edu.
-- The SWIG Maintainers

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-*- outline -*-
* for release 1.3.6
* for release 1.3.7 (or 1.4.0?)
** Testing
* for release 1.3.7
** Revive the documentation
** Discuss the %pragma directive syntax change from CVS head.
Why is the syntax changing all the time? Can't we just stick to
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** Maybe port other parser-related stuff from CVS head
** Maybe get the 10/14/00 changes from CVS head
** Maybe get the 10/14/00 ("output file handling and shadow classes") change from CVS head
** Fix all the bugs on SourceForge
** Incorporate all the patches on SourceForge
** Make a proper test suite with both language-independent and language-dependent tests.
The directories Examples/guile/test-suite, Examples/perl5/pointer-cxx, Examples/C++
contain some material that can be used.
* eventually
** Revive the documentation
* for the unstable 1.5 series
** Maybe use libtool rather than all the home-grown compile/link stuff