SWIG (Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator) Version: 1.3.40 (18 August 2009) Tagline: SWIG is a compiler that integrates C and C++ with languages including Perl, Python, Tcl, Ruby, PHP, Java, Ocaml, Lua, Scheme (Guile, MzScheme, CHICKEN), Pike, C#, Modula-3, Common Lisp (CLISP, Allegro CL, CFFI, UFFI), Octave and R. SWIG reads annotated C/C++ header files and creates wrapper code (glue code) in order to make the corresponding C/C++ libraries available to the listed languages, or to extend C/C++ programs with a scripting language. This distribution represents the latest development release of SWIG. The guilty parties working on this are: Active Developers: William Fulton (wsf@fultondesigns.co.uk) (SWIG core, Java, C#, Windows, Cygwin) Olly Betts (olly@survex.com) (PHP) John Lenz (Guile, MzScheme updates, Chicken module, runtime system) Mark Gossage (mark@gossage.cjb.net) (Lua) Joseph Wang (joequant@gmail.com) (R) Gonzalo Garramuno (ggarra@advancedsl.com.ar) (Ruby, Ruby's UTL) Xavier Delacour (xavier.delacour@gmail.com) (Octave) Major contributors include: Dave Beazley (dave-swig@dabeaz.com) (SWIG core, Python, Tcl, Perl) Henning Thielemann (swig@henning-thielemann.de) (Modula3) Matthias Köppe (mkoeppe@mail.math.uni-magdeburg.de) (Guile, MzScheme) Luigi Ballabio (luigi.ballabio@fastwebnet.it) (STL wrapping) Mikel Bancroft (mikel@franz.com) (Allegro CL) Surendra Singhi (efuzzyone@netscape.net) (CLISP, CFFI) Marcelo Matus (mmatus@acms.arizona.edu) (SWIG core, Python, UTL[python,perl,tcl,ruby]) Art Yerkes (ayerkes@speakeasy.net) (Ocaml) Lyle Johnson (lyle@users.sourceforge.net) (Ruby) Charlie Savage (cfis@interserv.com) (Ruby) Thien-Thi Nguyen (ttn@glug.org) (build/test/misc) Richard Palmer (richard@magicality.org) (PHP) Sam Liddicott - Anonova Ltd (saml@liddicott.com) (PHP) Tim Hockin - Sun Microsystems (thockin@sun.com) (PHP) Kevin Ruland (PHP) Shibukawa Yoshiki (Japanese Translation) Jason Stewart (jason@openinformatics.com) (Perl5) Loic Dachary (Perl5) David Fletcher (Perl5) Gary Holt (Perl5) Masaki Fukushima (Ruby) Scott Michel (scottm@cs.ucla.edu) (Java directors) Tiger Feng (songyanf@cs.uchicago.edu) (SWIG core) Mark Rose (mrose@stm.lbl.gov) (Directors) Jonah Beckford (beckford@usermail.com) (CHICKEN) Ahmon Dancy (dancy@franz.com) (Allegro CL) Dirk Gerrits (Allegro CL) Neil Cawse (C#) Harco de Hilster (Java) Alexey Dyachenko (dyachenko@fromru.com) (Tcl) Bob Techentin (Tcl) Martin Froehlich (Guile) Marcio Luis Teixeira (Guile) Duncan Temple Lang (R) Miklos Vajna (PHP directors) Past contributors include: James Michael DuPont, Clark McGrew, Dustin Mitchell, Ian Cooke, Catalin Dumitrescu, Baran Kovuk, Oleg Tolmatcev, Tal Shalif, Lluis Padro, Chris Seatory, Igor Bely, Robin Dunn (See CHANGES for a more complete list). Portions also copyrighted by companies/corporations; Network Applied Communication Laboratory, Inc Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan Up-to-date SWIG related information can be found at http://www.swig.org A SWIG FAQ and other hints can be found on the SWIG Wiki: http://www.dabeaz.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!! IMPORTANT !!!!!!! !!!!!!! !!!!!!! !!!!!!! Previous SWIG-1.1 users should read the documentation !!!!!!! !!!!!!! file Doc/Manual/SWIG.html before trying to use SWIG-1.3!!!!!!! !!!!!!! on existing SWIG interfaces. This is the most current !!!!!!! !!!!!!! documentation that describes new 1.3 features and !!!!!!! !!!!!!! incompatibilities. !!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What's New? =========== SWIG-1.3.40 summary: - SWIG now supports directors for PHP. - PHP support improved in general. - Octave 3.2 support added. - Various bug fixes/enhancements for Allegrocl, C#, Java, Octave, Perl, Python, Ruby and Tcl. - Other generic fixes and minor new features. SWIG-1.3.39 summary: - Some new small feature enhancements. - Improved C# std::vector wrappers. - Bug fixes: mainly Python, but also Perl, MzScheme, CFFI, Allegrocl and Ruby SWIG-1.3.38 summary: - Output directory regression fix and other minor bug fixes SWIG-1.3.37 summary: - Python 3 support added - SWIG now ships with a version of ccache that can be used with SWIG. This enables the files generated by SWIG to be cached so that repeated use of SWIG on unchanged input files speeds up builds quite considerably. - PHP 4 support removed and PHP support improved in general - Improved C# array support - Numerous Allegro CL improvements - Bug fixes/enhancements for Python, PHP, Java, C#, Chicken, Allegro CL, CFFI, Ruby, Tcl, Perl, R, Lua. - Other minor generic bug fixes and enhancements SWIG-1.3.36 summary: - Enhancement to directors to wrap all protected members - Optimisation feature for objects returned by value - A few bugs fixes in the PHP, Java, Ruby, R, C#, Python, Lua and Perl modules - Other minor generic bug fixes SWIG-1.3.35 summary: - Octave language module added - Bug fixes in Python, Lua, Java, C#, Perl modules - A few other generic bugs and runtime assertions fixed SWIG-1.3.34 summary: - shared_ptr support for Python - Support for latest R - version 2.6 - Various minor improvements/bug fixes for R, Lua, Python, Java, C# - A few other generic bug fixes, mainly for templates and using statements SWIG-1.3.33 summary: - Fix regression for Perl where C++ wrappers would not compile - Fix regression parsing macros SWIG-1.3.32 summary: - shared_ptr support for Java and C# - Enhanced STL support for Ruby - Windows support for R - Fixed long-standing memory leak in PHP Module - Numerous fixes and minor enhancements for Allegrocl, C#, cffi, Chicken, Guile, Java, Lua, Ocaml, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl. - Improved warning support SWIG-1.3.31 summary: - Python modern classes regression fix SWIG-1.3.30 summary: - Python-2.5 support - New language module: R - Director support added for C# - Numerous director fixes and improvements - Improved mingw/msys support - Better constants support in Guile and chicken modules - Support for generating PHP5 class wrappers - Important Java premature garbage collection fix - Minor improvements/fixes in cffi, php, allegrocl, perl, chicken, lua, ruby, ocaml, python, java, c# and guile language modules - Many many other bug fixes SWIG-1.3.29 summary: - Numerous important bug fixes - Few minor new features - Some performance improvements in generated code for Python SWIG-1.3.28 summary: - More powerful renaming (%rename) capability. - More user friendly warning handling. - Add finer control for default constructors and destructors. We discourage the use of the 'nodefault' option, which disables both constructors and destructors, leading to possible memory leaks. Use instead 'nodefaultctor' and/or 'nodefaultdtor'. - Automatic copy constructor wrapper generation via the 'copyctor' option/feature. - Better handling of Windows extensions and types. - Better runtime error reporting. - Add the %catches directive to catch and dispatch exceptions. - Add the %naturalvar directive for more 'natural' variable wrapping. - Better default handling of std::string variables using the %naturalvar directive. - Add the %allowexcept and %exceptionvar directives to handle exceptions when accessing a variable. - Add the %delobject directive to mark methods that act like destructors. - Add the -fastdispatch option to enable smaller and faster overload dispatch mechanism. - Template support for %rename, %feature and %typemap improved. - Add/doc more debug options, such as -dump_module, -debug_typemaps, etc. - Unified typemap library (UTL) potentially providing core typemaps for all scripting languages based on the recently evolving Python typemaps. - New language module: Common Lisp with CFFI. - Python, Ruby, Perl and Tcl use the new UTL, many old reported and hidden errors with typemaps are now fixed. - Initial Java support for languages using the UTL via GCJ, you can now use Java libraries in your favorite script language using gcj + swig. - Tcl support for std::wstring. - PHP4 module update, many error fixes and actively maintained again. - Allegrocl support for C++, also enhanced C support. - Ruby support for bang methods. - Ruby support for user classes as native exceptions. - Perl improved dispatching in overloaded functions via the new cast and rank mechanism. - Perl improved backward compatibility, 5.004 and later tested and working. - Python improved backward compatibility, 1.5.2 and later tested and working. - Python can use the same cast/rank mechanism via the -castmode option. - Python implicit conversion mechanism similar to C++, via the %implicitconv directive (replaces and improves the implicit.i library). - Python threading support added. - Python STL support improved, iterators are supported and STL containers can use now the native PyObject type. - Python many performance options and improvements, try the -O option to test all of them. Python runtime benchmarks show up to 20 times better performance compared to 1.3.27 and older versions. - Python support for 'multi-inheritance' on the python side. - Python simplified proxy classes, now swig doesn't need to generate the additional 'ClassPtr' classes. - Python extended support for smart pointers. - Python better support for static member variables. - Python backward compatibility improved, many projects that used to work only with swig-1.3.21 to swig-1.3.24 are working again with swig-1.3.28 - Python test-suite is now 'valgrinded' before release, and swig also reports memory leaks due to missing destructors. - Minor bug fixes and improvements to the Lua, Ruby, Java, C#, Python, Guile, Chicken, Tcl and Perl modules. SWIG-1.3.27 summary: - Fix bug in anonymous typedef structures which was leading to strange behaviour SWIG-1.3.26 summary: - New language modules: Lua, CLISP and Common Lisp with UFFI. - Big overhaul to the PHP module. - Change to the way 'extern' is handled. - Minor bug fixes specific to C#, Java, Modula3, Ocaml, Allegro CL, XML, Lisp s-expressions, Tcl, Ruby and Python modules. - Other minor improvements and bug fixes. SWIG-1.3.25 summary: - Improved runtime type system. Speed of module loading improved in modules with lots of types. SWIG_RUNTIME_VERSION has been increased from 1 to 2, but the API is exactly the same; only internal changes were made. - The languages that use the runtime type system now support external access to the runtime type system. - Various improvements with typemaps and template handling. - Fewer warnings in generated code. - Improved colour documentation. - Many C# module improvements (exception handling, prevention of early garbage collection, C# attributes support added, more flexible type marshalling/asymmetric types.) - Minor improvements and bug fixes specific to the C#, Java, TCL, Guile, Chicken, MzScheme, Perl, Php, Python, Ruby and Ocaml modules). - Various other bug fixes and memory leak fixes. SWIG-1.3.24 summary: - Improved enum handling - More runtime library options - More bugs fixes for templates and template default arguments, directors and other areas. - Better smart pointer support, including data members, static members and %extend. SWIG-1.3.23 summary: - Improved support for callbacks - Python docstring support and better error handling - C++ default argument support for Java and C# added. - Improved c++ default argument support for the scripting languages plus option to use original (compact) default arguments. - %feature and %ignore/%rename bug fixes and mods - they might need default arguments specified to maintain compatible behaviour when using the new default arguments wrapping. - Runtime library changes: Runtime code can now exist in more than one module and so need not be compiled into just one module - Further improved support for templates and namespaces - Overloaded templated function support added - More powerful default typemaps (mixed default typemaps) - Some important %extend and director code bug fixes - Guile now defaults to using SCM API. The old interface can be obtained by the -gh option. - Various minor improvements and bug fixes for C#, Chicken, Guile, Java, MzScheme, Perl, Python and Ruby - Improved dependencies generation for constructing Makefiles. SWIG-1.3.22 summary: - Improved exception handling and translation of C errors or C++ exceptions into target language exceptions. - Improved enum support, mapping to built-in Java 1.5 enums and C# enums or the typesafe enum pattern for these two languages. - Python - much better STL suppport and support for std::wstring, wchar_t and FILE *. - Initial support for Modula3 and Allegro CL. - 64 bit TCL support. - Java and C#'s proxy classes are now nearly 100% generated from typemaps and/or features for finer control on the generated code. - SWIG runtime library support deprecation. - Improved documentation. SWIG now additionally provides documentation in the form of a single HTML page as well as a pdf document. - Enhanced C++ friend declaration support. - Better support for reference counted classes. - Various %fragment improvements. - RPM fixes. - Various minor improvements and bug fixes for C#, Chicken, Guile, Java, MzScheme, Perl, Php, Python, Ruby and XML. The SWIG-1.3.x development releases offer a huge number of improvements over older SWIG-1.1 releases. These improvements include: - Support for C++ overloaded functions and methods. - Support for C++ smart pointers. - Support for C++ namespaces - Support for C++ overloaded operators. - Support for C++ templates including member templates. - Support for C++ template specialization and partial specialization. - Support for C++ friend declarations. - Parsing support for almost all C/C++ datatypes. - Automatic translation of C++ exception specifiers. - Contract support. - A full C preprocessor with macro expansion. Includes C99 variadic macros. - Java, Ruby, MzScheme, PHP4, OCAML, Pike, CHICKEN, XML and C# modules added. Guile module improved. - Director support - upcalls for C++ virtual functions into the target language proxy class. - Better code generation. SWIG is better able to make optimizations in order to generate less code. - Testing framework part of the distribution ("make -k check" support). - A lot of minor bug fixes and cleanup. - Better Windows support. If you used SWIG-1.1, a number of old features are missing from SWIG-1.3. - The SWIG-1.1 documentation system is gone and hasn't been replaced yet. This is on the long-term to-do list. - The Tcl7.x and Perl4 modules are deprecated and no longer included. - A wide variety of old SWIG command-line options and obscure features are gone. - A lot of old %pragma directives and obscure undocumented customization features have been eliminated. The same functionality is now available through other means. - Objective C support doesn't work right now. No ETA as to when it will return. Although we are making some attempt to preserve backwards compatibility with interfaces written for SWIG-1.1, SWIG-1.3 incorporates a number of very substantial modifications to type handling, typemaps, and wrapper code generation. Therefore, if you are making extensive use of advanced SWIG features, interfaces written for SWIG-1.1 may not work. We apologize for the inconvenience, but these changes are needed in order to fix a number of annoying "features" in SWIG-1.1. Hopefully the list of new features will provide enough incentive for you to upgrade (and that the modifications to your interfaces will only be minor). In addition, SWIG-1.3 makes no attempt to be compatible with SWIG-1.1 at the C++ API level so language modules written for SWIG-1.1 will most definitely not work with this release. See the documentation for details of the SWIG_VERSION preprocessor symbol if you have backward compatibility issues and need to use more than one version of SWIG. The files NEW and CHANGES describe in some detail all of the important changes that have been made to the system. Experienced users would be well advised to read this. Release Notes ============= Please see the CHANGES files for a detailed list of bug fixes and new features. A summary of the changes is included in this README file. Windows Installation ==================== Please see the Doc/Manual/Windows.html file for instructions on installing SWIG on Windows and running the examples. The Windows distribution is called swigwin and includes a prebuilt SWIG executable, swig.exe, included in the same directory as this README file. Otherwise it is exactly the same as the main SWIG distribution. There is no need to download anything else. 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However, as of this writing, there is still great deal of inconsistency with how shared libaries are handled by various scripting languages on OS X. We've tried to resolve these differences to the extent of our knowledge. This release was most recently checked with the Panther release of OS X on a Macintosh G5 system. Your mileage may vary. Users of OS X should be aware that Darwin handles shared libraries and linking in a radically different way than most Unix systems. In order to test SWIG and run the examples, SWIG configures itself to use flat namespaces and to allow undefined symbols (-flat_namespace -undefined suppress). This mostly closely follows the Unix model and makes it more likely that the SWIG examples will work with whatever installation of software you might have. However, this is generally not the recommended technique for building larger extension modules. Instead, you should utilize Darwin's two-level namespaces. Some details about this can be found here http://developer.apple.com/documentation/ReleaseNotes/DeveloperTools/TwoLevelNamespaces.html Needless to say, you might have to experiment a bit to get things working at first. Testing ======= If you want to test SWIG before installation, type the following: % make -k check 'make -k check' requires at least one of the target languages to be installed. If it fails, it may mean that you have an uninstalled language module or that the file 'Examples/Makefile' has been incorrectly configured. It may also fail due to compiler issues such as broken C++ compiler. Even if 'make -k check' fails, there is a pretty good chance SWIG still works correctly---you will just have to mess around with one of the examples and some makefiles to get it to work. The testing suite executed by 'make -k check' is designed to stress-test many parts of the implementation including obscure corner cases. 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If you would like to join the SWIG development team or contribute a language module to the distribution, please contact the swig-dev mailing list, details at http://www.swig.org/mail.html. -- The SWIG Maintainers Version 1.3.40 (18 August 2009) =============================== 2009-08-17: olly [Perl] Add "#undef do_exec" to our clean up of Perl global namespace pollution. 2009-08-17: olly [PHP] Fix to wrap a resource returned by __get() in a PHP object (SF#2549217). 2009-08-17: wsfulton Fix #2797485 After doing a 'make clean', install fails if yodl2man or yodl2html is not available. 2009-08-16: wsfulton [Octave] Caught exceptions display the type of the C++ exception instead of the generic "c++-side threw an exception" message. 2009-08-16: wsfulton [Java] When %catches is used, fix so that any classes specified in the "throws" attribute of the "throws" typemap are generated into the Java method's throws clause. 2009-08-16: wsfulton [C#] Fix exception handling when %catches is used, reported by Juan Manuel Alvarez. 2009-08-15: wsfulton Fix %template seg fault on some cases of overloading the templated method. Bug reported by Jan Kupec. 2009-08-15: wsfulton [Ruby] Add numerous missing wrapped methods for std::vector specialization as reported by Youssef Jones. 2009-08-14: wsfulton [Perl] Add SWIG_ConvertPtrAndOwn() method into the runtime for smart pointer memory ownership control. shared_ptr support still to be added. Patch from David Fletcher. 2009-08-14: olly [PHP] PHP5 now wraps static member variables as documented. 2009-08-14: olly [PHP] Update the PHP "class" example to work with PHP5 and use modern wrapping features. 2009-08-13: wsfulton [PHP] std::vector wrappers overhaul. They no longer require the specialize_std_vector() macro. Added wrappers for capacity() and reserve(). 2009-08-13: wsfulton [PHP] Add const reference typemaps. const reference primitive types are now passed by value rather than pointer like the other target languages. Fixes SF#2524029. 2009-08-08: wsfulton [Python] More user friendly AttributeError is raised when there are no constructors generated for the proxy class in the event that the class is abstract - the error message is now "No constructor defined - class is abstract" whereas if there are no public constructors for any other reason and the class is not abstract, the message remains "No constructor defined". [tcl] Similarly for tcl when using -itcl. 2009-08-04: olly [PHP] Fix generated code to work with PHP 5.3. 2009-08-04: vmiklos [PHP] Various mathematical functions (which would conflict with the built-in PHP ones) are now automatically handled by adding a 'c_' prefix. 2009-08-03: wsfulton [C#] The std::vector implementation is improved and now uses $typemap such that the proxy class for T no longer has to be specified in some macros for correct C# compilation; the following macros are deprecated, where CSTYPE was the C# type for the C++ class CTYPE: SWIG_STD_VECTOR_SPECIALIZE_MINIMUM(CSTYPE, CTYPE) usage should be removed altogether SWIG_STD_VECTOR_SPECIALIZE(CSTYPE, CTYPE) should be replaced with: SWIG_STD_VECTOR_ENHANCED(CTYPE) Some more details in csharp/std_vector.i *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 2009-07-31: olly [Python] Fix indentation so that we give a useful error if the module can't be loaded. Patch from Gaetan Lehmann in SF#2829853. 2009-07-29: wsfulton Add $typemap(method, typelist) special variable macro. This allows the contents of a typemap to be inserted within another typemap. Fully documented in Typemaps.html. 2009-07-29: vmiklos [PHP] Static member variables are now prefixed with the class name. This allows static member variables with the same name in different classes. 2009-07-29: olly [Python] Add missing locks to std::map wrappers. Patch from Paul Hampson in SF#2813836. 2009-07-29: olly [PHP] Fix memory leak in PHP OUTPUT typemaps. Reported by Hitoshi Amano in SF#2826322. 2009-07-29: olly [PHP] Fix memory leak in PHP resource destructor for classes without a destructor and non-class types. Patch from Hitoshi Amano in SF#2825303. 2009-07-28: olly [PHP] Update warnings about clashes between identifiers and PHP keywords and automatic renaming to work with the PHP5 class wrappers. Fixes SF#1613679. 2009-07-28: vmiklos [PHP] If a member function is not public but it has a base which is public, then now a warning is issued and the member function will be public, as PHP requires this. 2009-07-21: vmiklos [PHP] Director support added. 2009-07-15: olly [Perl] Don't specify Perl prototype "()" for a constructor with a different name to the class, as such constructors can still take parameters. 2009-07-12: xavier98 [Octave] Add support for Octave 3.2 API 2009-07-05: olly [PHP] Update the list of PHP keywords - "cfunction" is no longer a keyword in PHP5 and PHP 5.3 added "goto", "namespace", "__DIR__", and "__NAMESPACE__". 2009-07-03: olly [Tcl] To complement USE_TCL_STUBS, add support for USE_TK_STUBS and SWIG_TCL_STUBS_VERSION. Document all three in the Tcl chapter of the manual. Based on patch from SF#2810380 by Christian Gollwitzer. 2009-07-02: vmiklos [PHP] Added factory.i for PHP, see the li_factory testcase for more info on how to use it. 2009-07-02: wsfulton Fix -Wallkw option as reported by Solomon Gibbs. 2009-07-02: wsfulton Fix syntax error when a nested struct contains a comment containing a * followed eventually by a /. Regression from 1.3.37, reported by Solomon Gibbs. 2009-07-01: vmiklos [PHP] Unknown properties are no longer ignored in proxy classes. 2009-07-01: vmiklos [PHP] Fixed %newobject behaviour, previously any method marked with %newobject was handled as a constructor. 2009-06-30: olly [Ruby] Undefine close and connect macros defined by Ruby API headers as we don't need them and they can clash with C++ methods being wrapped. Patch from Vit Ondruch in SF#2814430. 2009-06-26: olly [Ruby] Fix to handle FIXNUM values greater than MAXINT passed for a double parameter. 2009-06-24: wsfulton Fix wrapping methods with default arguments and the compactdefaultargs feature where a class is passed by value and is assigned a default value. The SwigValueWrapper template workaround for a missing default constructor is no longer used as the code generated does not call the default constructor. 2009-06-16: wsfulton [Java,C#] Fix enum marshalling when %ignore is used on one of the enum items. Incorrect enum values were being passed to the C++ layer or compilation errors resulted. 2009-06-02: talby [Perl] Resolved reference.i overload support problem identified by John Potowsky. 2009-05-26: wsfulton [C#] Improved std::map wrappers based on patch from Yuval Baror. The C# proxy now implements System.Collections.Generic.IDictionary<>. These std:map wrappers have a non-backwards compatible overhaul to make them like a .NET IDictionary. Some method names have changed as following: set -> setitem (use this[] property now) get -> getitem (use this[] property now) has_key -> ContainsKey del -> Remove clear -> Clear The following macros used for std::map wrappers are deprecated and will no longer work: specialize_std_map_on_key specialize_std_map_on_value specialize_std_map_on_both *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 2009-05-20: vmiklos [PHP] Add the 'thisown' member to classes. The usage of it is the same as the Python thisown one: it's 1 by default and you can set it to 0 if you want to prevent freeing it. (For example to prevent a double free.) 2009-05-14: bhy [Python] Fix the wrong pointer value returned by SwigPyObject_repr(). 2009-05-13: mutandiz (Mikel Bancroft) [allegrocl] Minor tweak when wrapping in -nocwrap mode. 2009-05-11: wsfulton [C#] Improved std::vector wrappers on the C# proxy side from Yuval Baror. These implement IList<> instead of IEnumerable<> where possible. 2009-04-29: wsfulton [Java, C#] Add the 'notderived' attribute to the javabase and csbase typemaps. When this attribute is set, the typemap will not apply to classes that are derived from a C++ base class, eg %typemap(csbase, notderived="1") SWIGTYPE "CommonBase" 2009-04-29: olly [Python] Don't attempt to acquire the GIL in situations where we know that it will already be locked. This avoids some dead-locks with mod_python (due to mod_python bugs which are apparently unlikely to ever be fixed), and results in smaller wrappers which run a little faster (in tests with Xapian on x86-64 Ubuntu 9.04, the stripped wrapper library was 11% smaller and ran 2.7% faster). 2009-04-21: wsfulton [C#] Fix #2753469 - bool &OUTPUT and bool *OUTPUT typemaps initialisation. 2009-04-09: wsfulton Fix #2746858 - C macro expression using floating point numbers 2009-03-30: olly [PHP] The default out typemap for char[ANY] now returns the string up to a zero byte, or the end of the array if there is no zero byte. This is the same as Python does, and seems more generally useful than the previous behaviour of returning the whole contents of the array including any zero bytes. If you want the old behaviour, you can provide your own typemap to do this: %typemap(out) char [ANY] %{ RETVAL_STRINGL($1, $1_dim0, 1); %}