swigTest

Testing swig for generating python and matlab wrappers.

Building

Prerequisites

In order to build the project you need:

• python
• matlab
• swig

SWIG with matlab support

If you need the matlab wrapper then you should switch to a developer version of swig. You need to checkout the matlab branch from the swig repository

git clone --branch matlab https://github.com/swig/swig.git

Please refer to http://www.swig.org/svn.html for the necessary tools needed to build. and then install it:

cd swig
./autogen.sh 
./configure --prefix=`pwd`/build/install --with-matlab=/Applications/MATLAB_R2015b.app/
make -j8
make install

Change --prefix=<install_path> to any directory where you want to install swig. Change --with-matlab=<matlabroot> to the root path of your matlab installation (note it will look for matlab binaries into <matlabroot>/bin).

Then at cmake stage you have to pass -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=<install_path> so that the installed version can be found (unless you install in a system directory).

Building the wrappers

The generation of the wrappers is controlled by two cmake options:

option(BUILD_MATLAB_WRAPPER "Build the matlab wrapper with SWIG" ON)
option(BUILD_PYTHON_WRAPPER "Build the python wrapper with SWIG" ON)

so you can change the behaviour at cmake stage with eg -DBUILD_MATLAB_WRAPPER:BOOL=OFF.