Re: [Swig-user] wrapping a large c++ codebase with default

[Schlimbach, F. <fra...@in...>]

On 19 January 2016 at 15:21, Mosesson, Daniel B.
<Dan...@gd...> wrote:
> Is there a way to get swig to take in a large set of c++ header files 
> and do something like:
>
> For all template functions, create functions of the form 
> fname_typename1
>
> List all functions that could not be completely wrapped
>
> I don?t want to write the .i files by hand as there are thousands of 
> lines of headers. Is this possible? I understand that the output may 
> be very verbose, but that is not a problem.
>

We do this by using jinja2 templates to generate the .i files.
This allows us keeping "normal" SWIG declarations together with the template instantiations.
The latter only get decorated with jinja2 loops. 
A simple jinja2-macro even gives us a "global" template-naming convention.

frank
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