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swig-4.4.1

simplified wrapper and interface generator

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Description

SWIG is a tool for automatically generating the wrapper code needed to link collections of functions written in C/C++ with interpreted scripting languages. Currently, SWIG supports : - C - Guile - Java - Perl - PHP - Python - Ruby - Tcl Using SWIG, it is possible to greatly simplify interface development and to put interesting interfaces on existing applications with little effort.

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Ports path
devel/swig
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
devel, lang/python, lang/tcl
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, sparc64, alpha, hppa, m88k, sh

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