Octave support for SWIG 0.1

Octave support for SWIG adds Octave support to SWIG, enabling it to generate oct-file extensions.

SWIG is a powerful C/C++ wrapper generator that takes special interface files (in the simplest case, a C/C++ header) and produces extension modules for various target languages.

· It is modular in that support for new languages can be added without changing the SWIG core. Currently SWIG supports 17 languages: AllegroCL, C# - Mono, C# - MS .NET, CFFI, CHICKEN, CLISP, Guile, Java, Lua, MzScheme, Ocaml, Perl, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Tcl/Tk.
· Many projects use SWIG to provide language bindings to one or more of these targets (the swig site gives a partial list). Once bindings/interface files are written for one target, it is relatively easy to reuse them for another.

Here are some key features of "Octave support for SWIG":

· Basic wrapping: Octave code can use C/C++ functions, variables, constants and enums, classes (member variables, methods, single/multiple inheritance, etc), and templates.
· Argument/result translation is completely extensible via %typemap and other declarations in interface files.
· Operator overloading: Octave operators map to C++ operators, methods, or global functions.
· Directors: Octave code can subclass C++ types and implement their virtual methods (i.e., C++ code transparently calls Octave code).
· Some support for STL containers.
· Manual %docstring and autodoc support for generating inline texinfo help.
· Test coverage: 339 automated tests (under Examples/test-suite, Examples/test-suite/octave).
· 15 examples, demonstrating most functionality (under Examples/octave).
· Documentation.



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Here are some key features of "Octave support for SWIG":

· Basic wrapping: Octave code can use C/C functions, variables, constants and enums, classes (member variables, methods, single/multiple inheritance, etc), and templates.
· Argument/result translation is completely extensible via %typemap and other declarations in interface files.
· Operator overloading: Octave operators map to C operators, methods, or global functions.
· Directors: Octave code can subclass C types and implement their virtual methods (i.e., C code transparently calls Octave code).
· Some support for STL containers.
· Manual %docstring and autodoc support for generating inline texinfo help.
· Test coverage: 339 automated tests (under Examples/test-suite, Examples/test-suite/octave).
· 15 examples, demonstrating most functionality (under Examples/octave).
· Documentation.