SWIG module for Octave

SWIG is a powerful C/C++ wrapper generator that takes special interface files (in the simplest case, a C/C++ header) and produces extension modules for various target languages.

• It is modular in that support for new languages can be added without changing the SWIG core. Currently SWIG supports 17 languages: AllegroCL, C# - Mono, C# - MS .NET, CFFI, CHICKEN, CLISP, Guile, Java, Lua, MzScheme, Ocaml, Perl, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Tcl/Tk.

• Many projects use SWIG to provide language bindings to one or more of these targets (the swig site gives a partial list). Once bindings/interface files are written for one target, it is relatively easy to reuse them for another.

The SWIG/Octave project adds Octave support to SWIG, enabling it to generate oct-file extensions.

• Basic wrapping: Octave code can use C/C++ functions, variables, constants and enums, classes (member variables, methods, single/multiple inheritance, etc), and templates.
• Argument/result translation is completely extensible via %typemap and other declarations in interface files.
• Operator overloading: Octave operators map to C++ operators, methods, or global functions.
• Directors: Octave code can subclass C++ types and implement their virtual methods (i.e., C++ code transparently calls Octave code).
• Some support for STL containers.
• Manual %docstring and autodoc support for generating inline texinfo help.

• Test coverage: 339 automated tests (under Examples/test-suite, Examples/test-suite/octave).
• 15 examples, demonstrating most functionality (under Examples/octave).
• Documentation.

Releases:

4/7/08: Officially released with SWIG 1.3.35. See www.swig.org for more information.

3/7/08: The module has been incorporated into SWIG. The latest sources are available only from SWIG SVN.

2/28/08: first release; 24 tests still fail, STL support incomplete, there are unresolved multi-module issues, documentation is a bit thin.

octave-swig-022808.tar.gz (patched swig, svn rev 10262)
octave-swig-022808.patch.gz (just the patch)
Documentation

See also:

octave-ann: Octave routines for approximate nearest neighbor computation.
octave-db: Octave bindings for postgres, mysql, sqlite3, and standard ODBC.
octave-opencv: Octave bindings for OpenCV (Open Computer Vision Library).

SWIG/Octave was written by Xavier Delacour. Please send feedback, bugs, and/or patches to one of the SWIG mailing lists, or directly to xavier dot delacour at gmail dot com.