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AutoWIG: Automatic Wrapper and Interface Generator ######################################################

High-level programming languages, such as Python and R, are popular among scientists. They are concise, readable, lead to rapid development cycles, but suffer from performance drawback compared to compiled language. However, these languages allow to interface C, C++ and Fortran code. In this way, most of the scientific packages incorporate compiled scientific libraries to both speed up the code and reuse legacy libraries. While several semi-automatic solutions and tools exist to wrap these compiled libraries, the process of wrapping a large library is cumbersome and time consuming. AutoWIG is a Python library that wraps automatically compiled libraries into high-level languages. Our approach consists in parsing C++ code using the LLVM/Clang technologies and generating the wrappers using the Mako templating engine. Our approach is automatic, extensible, and applies to very complex C++ libraries, composed of thousands of classes or incorporating modern meta-programming constructs.

Citation

If you use AutoWIG in a scientific publication, we would appreciate citations:

     Fernique P, Pradal C. (2018) AutoWIG: automatic generation of python bindings for C++ libraries. PeerJ Computer Science 4:e149 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.149 

Examples

Examples written in the article are available a dedicated repository <http://github.com/StatisKit/FP17>_