Re: Swig and Java bindings packaging
(please don't cc me)
Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> 2009/5/22 Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com>:
>> Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
>>
>>> I'm maintaining a C++ library. They have SWIG (python) and Java (dunno
>>> how) bindings which are not packaged right now.
>>>
>>> I would greatly appreciate if someone can point out good examples of
>>> packaged python-swig and / or Java bindings for libraries?
>>>
>>> I'm a bit stuck cause the bindings are not integrated into autofoo
>>> build system (it's not just additional flag to configure) and i
>>> struggling to get my head around how to link against a library which
>>> has just been build and not yet installed.
>>>
>>
>> SWIG is an interface generator for C++ into several languages. So
>> probably both interfaces in your program are SWIG-based.
>>
>> If the interfaces are not hooked into the package build system, then you
>> will probably have to invoke swig directly to generate them. My package
>> csound uses SWIG to generate Java, Python and Lua bindings. It uses
>> scons, however.
>> What package is this?
>>
>> --
>> Felipe Sateler
>>
>
> It's libsword7 (currently only in experimental)
Hmm, I can't figure out what upstream was doing with the build system for
the bindings. I think you should contact them and ask about the correct way
to build the bindings.
--
Felipe Sateler
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