SWIG users manual (version 1.1)

SWIG is a tool for solving problems. More specifically, SWIG is a simple tool for building interactive C, C++, or Objective-C programs with common scripting languages such as Tel, Perl, and Python. Of course, more importantly, SWIG is a tool for making C programming more enjoyable and promoting laziness (an essential feature). SWIG is not part of an overgrown software engineering project, an attempt to build some sort of monolithic programming environment, or an attempt to force everyone to rewrite all of their code (ie. code reuse). In fact, none of these things have ever been a priority. SWIG was originally developed in the Theoretical Physics Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory for building interfaces to large materials science research simulations being run on the Connection Machine 5 supercomputer.