SWIG?

[Timothee Cour via Digitalmars-d]

I've used it quite a bit for a number of bindings (opencv, sfml + many
other libs). It's much easier than the conventional approach of manual
bindings (eg deimos), especially to keep the port up to date with upstream
changes.

However the following should be worked on:

* support for newly introduced C++ namespaces (
https://github.com/swig/swig/issues/213)

* some support for multiple inheritance (I proposed using alias this in
https://github.com/swig/swig/issues/98)

* mapping of C++ templates to D templates in simple cases at least (the
templates would have to be instantiated somewhere in source file of course
to avoid linker errors). Only the function signature would be mapped, the
implementation would be still on C++ side

* miscellaneous compiler warnings that shouldn't be hard to deal with
  - Deprecation: Read-modify-write operations are not allowed for shared
variables : has a pull request (https://github.com/swig/swig/issues/203 )
  - missing override

* it would help to have a dedicated bug tracker for D-swig. Currently
github issues for swig lump all other languages together, making D-swig of
limited visibility for D community. At least create a SWIG-D label in
github issues.

@klickverbot will tell you more as he implemented most of it IIRC



On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Scott Wilson via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> SWIG has D support. But it seems old and out of fashion. Community here
> does not buzz about it much either. Whats the word on the street about the
> quality of SWIG-D stuff?
>
> Scott
>
> PS thankyou Walter for replying
>
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