Target Language Options:¶

-allegrocl

Generate ALLEGROCL wrappers

-chicken

Generate CHICKEN wrappers

-clisp

Generate CLISP wrappers

-cffi

Generate CFFI wrappers

-csharp

Generate C# wrappers

-d

Generate D wrappers

-go

Generate Go wrappers

-guile

Generate Guile wrappers

-java

Generate Java wrappers

-lua

Generate Lua wrappers

-modula3

Generate Modula 3 wrappers

-mzscheme

Generate Mzscheme wrappers

-ocaml

Generate Ocaml wrappers

-octave

Generate Octave wrappers

-perl

Generate Perl wrappers

-php

Generate PHP wrappers

-pike

Generate Pike wrappers

-python

Generate Python wrappers

-r

Generate R (aka GNU S) wrappers

-ruby

Generate Ruby wrappers

-sexp

Generate Lisp S-Expressions wrappers

-tcl

Generate Tcl wrappers

-uffi

Generate Common Lisp / UFFI wrappers

-xml

Generate XML wrappers i

General Options:¶

-addextern

Add extra extern declarations

-c++

Enable C++ processing

-co file

Check file out of the SWIG library

-copyctor

Automatically generate copy constructors wherever possible

-cpperraswarn

Treat the preprocessor #error statement as #warning (default)

-copyright

Display copyright notices

-debug-classes

Display information about the classes found in the interface

-debug-module n

Display module parse tree at stages 1-4, n is a csv list of stages

-debug-symtabs

Display symbol tables information

-debug-symbols

Display target language symbols in the symbol tables

-debug-csymbols

Display C symbols in the symbol tables

-debug-lsymbols

Display target language layer symbols

-debug-tags

Display information about the tags found in the interface

-debug-template

Display information for debugging templates

-debug-top n

Display entire parse tree at stages 1-4, n is a csv list of stages

-debug-typedef

Display information about the types and typedefs in the interface

-debug-typemap

Display typemap debugging information

-debug-tmsearch

Display typemap search debugging information

-debug-tmused

Display typemaps used debugging information

-directors

Turn on director mode for all the classes, mainly for testing

-dirprot

Turn on wrapping of protected members for director classes (default)

-Dsymbol

Define a symbol symbol (for conditional compilation)

-E

Preprocess only, does not generate wrapper code

-external-runtime [file]

Export the SWIG runtime stack

-fakeversion v

Make SWIG fake the program version number to v

-fcompact

Compile in compact mode

-features list

Set global features, where list is a comma separated list of features, eg -features directors,autodoc=1 If no explicit value is given to the feature, a default of 1 is used

-fastdispatch

Enable fast dispatch mode to produce faster overload dispatcher code

-Fmicrosoft

Display error/warning messages in Microsoft format

-Fstandard

Display error/warning messages in commonly used format

-fvirtual

Compile in virtual elimination mode

-help

This output

-I-

Don't search the current directory

-Idir

Look for SWIG files in directory dir

-ignoremissing

Ignore missing include files

-importall

Follow all #include statements as imports

-includeall

Follow all #include statements

-lifile

Include SWIG library file ifile

-macroerrors

Report errors inside macros

-makedefault

Create default constructors/destructors (the default)

-M

List all dependencies

-MD

Is equivalent to ’-M -MF file’, except ’-E’ is not implied

-MF file

Generate dependencies into file and continue generating wrappers

-MM

List dependencies, but omit files in SWIG library

-MMD

Like ’-MD’, but omit files in SWIG library

-module name

Set module name to name

-MP

Generate phony targets for all dependencies

-MT target

Set the target of the rule emitted by dependency generation

-nocontract

Turn off contract checking

-nocpperraswarn

Do not treat the preprocessor #error statement as #warning

-nodefault

Do not generate default constructors nor default destructors

-nodefaultctor

Do not generate implicit default constructors

-nodefaultdtor

Do not generate implicit default destructors

-nodirprot

Do not wrap director protected members

-noexcept

Do not wrap exception specifiers

-nofastdispatch

Disable fast dispatch mode (default)

-nopreprocess

Skip the preprocessor step

-notemplatereduce

Disable reduction of the typedefs in templates

-O

Enable the optimization options: -fastdispatch -fvirtual

-o outfile

Set name of the output file to outfile

-oh headfile

Set name of the output header file to headfile

-outcurrentdir

Set default output dir to current dir instead of input file's path

-outdir dir

Set language specific files output directory to dir

-pcreversion

Display PCRE version information

-small

Compile in virtual elimination & compact mode

-swiglib

Report location of SWIG library and exit

-templatereduce

Reduce all the typedefs in templates

-v

Run in verbose mode

-version

Display SWIG version number

-Wall

Remove all warning suppression, also implies -Wextra

-Wallkw

Enable keyword warnings for all the supported languages

-Werror

Treat warnings as errors

-Wextra

Adds the following additional warnings: 202,309,403,512,321,322

-wlist

Suppress/add warning messages, eg -w401,+321 see Warnings.html

-xmlout file

Write XML version of the parse tree to file after normal processing

Tcl 8 Options (available with -tcl)¶

-itcl

Enable ITcl support

-nosafe

Leave out SafeInit module function.

-prefix name

Set a prefix name to be prepended to all names

-namespace

Build module into a Tcl 8 namespace

-pkgversion

Set package version

Note: 'swig -lang -help' displays options for a specific target language.