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 version of SWIG can be retrieved using
```
% cvs checkout SWIG
```

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
A working C++ compiler.
yacc or bison (to compile the SWIG parser).

For Windows users, it is important to note that the CVS repository does not include the C++ code generated by yacc (this code is included in the normal release however). Thus, you will either have to install yacc/bison or download a nightly build.

Developer Access

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

Send email to beazley@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.