[Swig-user] Questions - Starting out with Swig and Lua

[Ernest O. <er...@wi...>]

I have a cpp file that I can generate a lua wrapper for with swig by not
using a .i file but instead running swig with the source file on the command
line.  This works very well.  However, I need a wrapper for a structure
defined in a header file that the cpp file uses.  How can I generate that
wrapper and have it be part of the same Lua module?

Also, is there a way I could do this from a .i file?  I mean could I specify
a .h and .cpp files for it to wrap, but also have header files in the %{ %}
section?

I¹m doing this this way because so far it doesn¹t seem that I need to define
each thing to wrap in a .i file.  This code is very clean and
straightforward.  And there are a LOT of things to wrap, so it would be
quite painful to have to list them all in a .i file.

So right now I can access all the functions and constants and so on that
were in the .cpp file.  But I can¹t create the structure needed that all
those function take as their first parameter.

Sorry if this is way simple.  I tried to figure this out from the docs and a
search of the archive.

Thanks,

Ernest