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SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C
and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages. SWIG is used
with different types of target languages including common scripting
languages such as Javascript, Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl and Ruby. The list of
supported languages also includes non-scripting languages such as C#,
Common Lisp (CLISP, Allegro CL, CFFI, UFFI), D, Go language, Java
including Android, Lua, Modula-3, OCAML, Octave, Scilab and R. Also
several interpreted and compiled Scheme implementations (Guile,
MzScheme/Racket, Chicken) are supported. SWIG is most commonly used to
create high-level interpreted or compiled programming environments, user
interfaces, and as a tool for testing and prototyping C/C++ software. SWIG
is typically used to parse C/C++ interfaces and generate the 'glue code'
required for the above target languages to call into the C/C++ code. SWIG
can also export its parse tree in the form of XML and Lisp s-expressions.
SWIG is free software and the code that SWIG generates is compatible with
both commercial and non-commercial projects.
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