Tcl and SWIG as a C/C++ Development Tool.
Originally written as a draft for a book chapter, this paper provides an overview of
using Tcl and SWIG. It also appears on the CD-ROM accompanying "Tcl/Tk for Real Programmers"
by Clif Flynt.
SWIG : An Easy to Use Tool for Integrating Scripting Languages with C and C++.
While a little dated, this is the first SWIG paper. Presented at
the 4th Tcl/Tk Workshop, Monterey, California, July 6-10, 1996. Also available
from USENIX.
Using SWIG to Control, Prototype, and Debug
C Programs with Python. Presented at the 4th International Python Conference,
Livermore, California, June, 1996.
Interfacing C/C++ and Python with SWIG (PDF).
Half-day tutorial presented at the 6th International Python Conference, October, 1997.
Tcl Extension Building with SWIG (PDF). Tutorial presented at the 1998 Tcl/Tk Conference.
Daniel Blezek wrote an article about SWIG in the November, 1998 issue of the C/C++ Users Journal.
An article about SWIG appeared in the February, 1998 issue
of Dr. Dobb's Journal on
Scripting and Alternative Languages.
Scott Bolte wrote an article about SWIG in the Winter, 1997 issue of
The Perl Journal.
John Ousterhout's
paper on scripting languages provides a good overview
of the use of scripting languages and their relationship to
systems programming languages. SWIG was developed with many of these issues
in mind so this paper might be of interest to users who are new to
SWIG and its goals.
Lightweight Computational Steering of Very Large Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations .
Presented at Supercomputing'96. This paper describes the application that
motivated the development of SWIG. (See why SWIG was originally developed).