Re: [Swig-user] Prefix on director classes

[Stefan Z. <sz...@gm...>]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Andrew Ward
<and...@gm...> wrote:
> Thanks for your suggestion Stefan, it works well.
> The product I work on has scripting in multiple languages built-in to the
> executable and we use SWIG to generate the application specific API for each
> language. For historical reasons the implementation of the API must reside
> in the main application executable and this is why I link the SWIG C++
> output for each language into the application executable and each scripting
> language wrapper calls the functions exposed by the executable. Ideally I
> would have had a separate shared library for each supported language, but
> the way it is done works fine and does not require sweeping changes to our
> build system.

OK, that makes sense.  I couldn't think of any technical reason why
you would do it that way, but preserving legacy code is a perfectly
valid reason.

Thanks,

Stefan