Re: [Swig-user] Using SWIG only to generate TCL interface wrapper functions.

[Olly B. <ol...@su...>]

On 2006-09-27, Alexander A. Prokhorov <pr...@gg...> wrote:
> As i see in documetation, 
> when i use SWIG (for instance with tcl), i have to remove my main() fucntion 
> and swig will replace it with it's own one. But i want SWIG to only generate 
> wrapper functions and that's all.

SWIG doesn't generate a main function.

However, SWIG is intended to wrap a C or C++ library to allow it to be
used from another language.  So you don't usually want a main() in the
C/C++ code being wrapped - control flow will start in the other language
and pass to the C/C++ code when you call one of the library functions.

Or perhaps you read the "Extending" section of the manual?  That's
talking about implementing a new language module in the swig program
itself and how you can hook into its main function to process special
command line arguments.

> No, i understand that SWIG knows many build-in types and can map it to script 
> ones. I am asking about is it possible to generate exactly this syntax. 
>
> method -index 10 -name cafe
> not
> method 10 cafe

I don't think this style of named parameters is currently supported by
SWIG/Tcl.  SWIG/Python at least supports something similar if you
specify the "-keyword" command line option.

Cheers,
    Olly