SWIG CVS

SWIG is currently undergoing a large redevelopment effort. Development versions of SWIG are available through a public CVS repository. To use this interface you will need to install CVS 1.9 or newer. The SWIG development machine is currently running cvs-1.10. Use of the CVS repository is not recommended except for advanced users.

Disclaimer

The CVS release represents work in progress and is not guaranteed to compile on your machine or be functional in any manner.

To check out the latest version

Set the location of CVSROOT
```
 % setenv CVSROOT :pserver:cvs@swig.cs.uchicago.edu:/cvsroot
```
(Alternatively, you can use the -d option to CVS)
Log into the cvs server by issuing the following command:
```
% cvs login
CVS password: <enter 'cvs' here>
```
The password to the cvs account is 'cvs'.
The latest development version of SWIG can be retrieved using
```
% cvs checkout SWIG
```

To build the system, follow these steps

% cd SWIG
% ./autogen.sh
% ./configure --prefix=/some/directory
% make
% make install

Note: The CVS repository is read-only so the system will not accept code modifications at this time.

Required Tools

To compile SWIG from its CVS repository, you will need the following tools:

Autoconf 2.54 or higher
Automake 1.72 or higher
A working C++ compiler.
yacc or bison (to compile the SWIG parser).

It is important to note that the CVS repository does not include the C++ code generated by yacc nor the files produced by Autoconf and Automake (these are however included in a normal release). Thus, you will have to install these tools on your machine to work with everything.

Developer Access

We are always looking for people to help out with various projects.

Send email to swig-dev@cs.uchicago.edu if you are interested in doing developer work and gaining write access to the CVS repository.
A developer mailing list is available at swig-dev@cs.uchicago.edu to discuss coding issues, bugs, patches, and so forth. Archives of recent activity can be found here.