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Generating libsrcml Python bindings using SWIG

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Michael L. Collard edited this page Jul 25, 2017 · 12 revisions

  • Install swig. For MacOS:

    % brew install swig
...
% swig -version

  • Going to have to create some files. These files can be found in a gist

    Makefile:

    all:
  swig -Wall -python srcml.i
  gcc -fPIC -Wall -Wextra -shared srcml_wrap.c -o _srcml.so -L/usr/local/lib/ -lsrcml -I/usr/include/python2.7/ -lpython2.7

clean:
  rm -f srcml_wrap.c _srcml.so srcml.py srcml_wrap.c

    srcml.i

    %module srcml

%{
#include "srcml.h"
%}

%include "srcml.h"

    Also going to have to get the srcml.h that you want, e.g.,

    cp ~/srcML/src/libsrcml/srcml.h .

    So at this point you have the following files:

    $ ls -1
Makefile
srcml.h
srcml.i

  • Now run make

    $ make
swig -Wall -python srcml.i
gcc -fPIC -Wall -Wextra -shared srcml_wrap.c -o _srcml.so -L/usr/local/lib/ -lsrcml -I/usr/include/python2.7/ -lpython2.7

    and you should now have the following files:

    $ ls -1
Makefile
_srcml.so
srcml.h
srcml.i
srcml.py
srcml_wrap.c

  • Now you can use the libsrcml functions from python

    % python
>>> import srcml
>>> srcml.srcml_version_number()
9005
>>> srcml.srcml("srcml.h", "srcml.h.xml")
0
>>> srcml.srcml("srcml.h.xml", "srcml2.h")
0

    If you look on your directory, you should see srcml.h.xml, and srcml2.h, which is identical to srcml.h

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