SWIG-4.5 Documentation

Last update : SWIG-4.5.0 (06 Aug 2026)

Sections

SWIG Core Documentation

• Preface
• Introduction
• Getting started on Windows
• Scripting
• SWIG Basics (Read this!)
• SWIG and C++
• SWIG and C++11
• SWIG and C++14
• SWIG and C++17
• SWIG and C++20
• The SWIG preprocessor
• The SWIG library
• Argument handling
• Typemaps
• Customization features
• Contracts
• Variable length arguments
• Doxygen documentation comments
• Warning messages
• Working with Modules
• Using SWIG with ccache

Supported Language Modules Documentation

• Android support
• C# support
• D support
• Go support
• Guile support
• Java support
• Javascript support
• Lua support
• Octave support
• Perl5 support
• PHP support
• Python support
• R support
• Ruby support
• Scilab support
• Tcl support

Experimental Language Modules Documentation

• C target language support
• OCaml support

Deprecated Language Modules Documentation

Developer Documentation

• Extending SWIG