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There are two main purposes of embedding a Scripting Engine into an existing C/C++ program:
  • The program can then be customized much more quickly, using the scripting language rather than C/C++. The scripting engine may even be exposed to the end user, so that they can automate common tasks by writing scripts.

  • Even if the final product is not to contain the scripting engine, it may nevertheless be quite useful to write testing scripts.


There are a very wide variety of reasons to create dynamic libraries that can be loaded into existing interpreters, including:
  • Provide access to a C/C++ Library which has no equivalent in the scripting language.

  • Write the whole program in the scripting language, and after Profiling , rewrite performance critical code in C or C++.


SWIG is written in C and C++ and has been publicly available since February 1996 . The initial author was Dave Beazley , who developed SWIG while working as a graduate student at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University Of Utah . Development is currently supported by an active group of volunteers. SWIG has been released under a BSD Type License , meaning it can be used, copied, modified and redistributed freely, for commercial and non-commercial purposes.


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