[Mapserver-users] Perl/MapScript or PHP/Mapscript

[Sean Gillies]

On Jun 4, 2004, at 10:56 AM, Eduardo Patto Kanegae wrote:

>
> Hi Sean,
>
> I saw your draw below...
>
> what is SWIG? is it a what of "framework" that Python, Ruby and Perl 
> makes use to deploy MapScript?
>
> Eduardo Patto Kanegae
> http://www.consultoria.eti.br
> UIN: 303747254
>
>

Eduardo,

Framework is not the right word.  SWIG is a program that operates on a
common module interface specification (the 
mapserver/mapscript/mapscript.i file)
and produces Perl, Python, or Ruby mapscript modules and also C/C++ 
libraries
that glue the modules to the mapserver code in libmap.lib or libmap.a.

After running swig, you then compile the module code and use it without
including SWIG itself in your applications.  There is no run-time 
dependence on
SWIG.

cheers,
Sean

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