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We avoid introducing 3rd party dependencies in the generated code
including the STL.
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@ -457,6 +457,12 @@ be used on any platform. Again, this is an important part of staying out
of the programmer's way----the last thing any developer wants to do is
to spend their time debugging the output of a tool that relies on
non-portable or unreliable programming features.
Dependencies are often a source of incompatibilities and problems and so
additional third party libraries are not used in the generated code.
SWIG will also generally avoid generating code that introduces a dependency
on the C++ Standard Template Library (STL).
SWIG will generate code that depends on the C libraries though.
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