Re: [Swig-user] SWIG installer for windows

[John P. <joh...@st...>]

Hi Marcelo

Well I really just wanted to get the idea swilling around a bit. I don't 
know any detail of the GnuWin32 build system etc, but I know that it's 
all automated with shell scripts and so on, so once the initial work is 
done, it's fairly likely that they would be able to track SWIG versions 
without any serious ongoing effort.

Maybe the build system config for a full-blown swig installer might have 
some specific needs, eg requires python/php/C# installed? But whatever 
it is, the first thing is for someone to make contact with the GnuWin32 
people and tell them a bit about the details of doing a SWIG build on 
Windows (using MinGW, I presume) and start working with them. I don't 
think it would  take much time.

I'm quite sure that there are enough SWIG users for this to be worth 
doing; it would be much appreciated by users like me. And maybe some of 
the devils too.

Cheers
JP

Marcelo Matus wrote:
> John Pye wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I'd like to suggest that SWIG get an installer package as part of the 
>> GnuWin32 suite of dev tool installers. Those GnuWin32 installers are 
>> really easy to use: new users could get started with SWIG without 
>> needing to do any manual installation steps, just as with Flex or 
>> Bison etc from GnuWin32 .
>>
>> I wonder if someone on the list who knows about the SWIG installation 
>> process would be interested in teaming up with the GnuWin32 guys and 
>> just giving them the information they would need in order to make 
>> this happen?
>>
>> Cheers
>> JP
>>
> I am almost 99% sure that William, our release manager, will like the 
> idea, but he is out in vacations,
> and I have no idea about Windows, so, we will need to wait for him. 
> But if you have any specific
> question, just ask it, and probably one of the Windows users or devils 
> (I mean, devels),  could
> help us out in the meantime.
>
> Marcelo
>
>
>


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University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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