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<h2>Ruby Module for SWIG</h2>

<p><a href="http://swig.sourceforge.net/">SWIG (Simplified Wrapper and Interface
Generator)</a> is an interface compiler that connects programs written
in C and C++ with scripting languages.  This module extends SWIG to
produce wrapper code for Ruby.

<p>This module generates extension library for Ruby from interface
files.  This includes following features:

<ul>
  <li>Eliminates routine coding:
      <ul>
	<li>Method arguments checking.
	<li>Default value for omitted arguments.
	<li>Basic type conversion between Ruby and C.
      </ul>
  <li>Provides mechanism to insert customized code when automatic
      conversion is not sufficient.
  <li>C structs and C++ classes are automagically wrapped in Ruby
      classes.  </ul>

<h3>Documentation</h3>

<p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="swig-examples/index.html">Ruby Examples</a>
  <li><a href="http://swig.sourceforge.net/doc.html">SWIG Documentation</a>
</ul>
      
<h3>Download</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Ruby module is now a part of the official SWIG release.
	SWIG1.3a5 includes Ruby module.  Get it from <a
	  href="http://swig.sourceforge.net/">swig.sourceforge.net</a>.

  <li><a href="swigruby-0.4.4.tar.gz">swigruby-0.4.4.tar.gz</a><br>
	<em>This is preliminary release.</em><br>
	This version is no more actively maintained.
  <li>Binary Package:
    <ul>
      <li><a href="ftp://ftp.arika.org/pub/debian/ruby/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/interpreters/">deb package</a> (thanks to akira yamada)
      <li><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=swig&stype=all">FreeBSD ports</a> (thanks to knu)
    </ul>
  <li>Changes:
      <ul>
	<li>Changes from 0.4.3 to 0.4.4:
	    <ul>
	      <li>Clarify the license.
	    </ul>
	<li>Changes from 0.4.2 to 0.4.3:
	    <ul>
	      <li>C global variables are wrapped in Ruby module attributes.
	    </ul>
	<li>Changes from 0.4.1 to 0.4.2:
	    <ul>
	      <li><code>pred</code> pragma is added.
	    </ul>
	<li>Changes from 0.4 to 0.4.1:
	    <ul>
	      <li><code>FILE *</code> typemap is added.
	      <li><code>include</code> pragma is added.
	      <li>C++ class inheritance bug fixed.
	    </ul>
	<li>Changes from 0.3 to 0.4:
	    <ul>
	      <li><code>pointer.i</code> is available to Ruby module.
	      <li><code>typemaps.i</code> bug fixed.
	    </ul>
	<li>Changes from 0.2 to 0.3:
	    <ul>
	      <li>Classes and functions can be defined in toplevel.
	      <li>Python style special method names supported.  (SWIG
		  cannot handle operator method names.)
	    </ul>
	<li>Changes from 0.1 to 0.2:
	    <ul>
	      <li><code>typemaps.i</code> refined.
	      <li>some bug fix.
	    </ul>
      </ul>
</ul>

<h3>Projects powered by SWIG/Ruby</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=Ruby%2Flibgraph">Ruby/libgraph</a> (by Noritsugu Nakamura)
  <li><a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=Ruby%2FQt">Ruby/Qt</a> (by Nobuyuki Horie)
</ul>

<h3>Copyright</h3>

Copyright (C) 1999  Network Applied Communication Laboratory, Inc.

<h3>Related Links</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="http://swig.sourceforge.net/">SWIG</a>
  <li><a href="http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk/software/">SIP</a>
</ul>

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