wrapping a large C++ library (OpenH323)

[David Abrahams]

Anthony Baxter <anthony at interlink.com.au> writes:

> I want to look at wrapping a large C++ library (the OpenH323 library,
> www.openh323.org). Ideally, I'd like to be able to do this with the 
> minimum pain necessary, so that I can wrap just the highest level objects
> initially, then work on the edges.
>
> What's people's feelings on the various techniques for this? There's
> a couple of approaches that I can think of - SWIG, CXX, and Boost. 
> Which of these are going to be least painful? 

No comment. ;->

> Which allow the C++ classes to be subclasses in Python? 

Boost.Python does.  AFAIK the others you list do not.  I believe there
are other options which do.

> It's a while since I've had to seriously get into the horror that is
> C++, so hopefully something that doesn't require deep deep C++
> knowledge would also be good...

You could judge the pain for yourself by looking through the tutorial:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/boost/boost/libs/python/doc/tutorial/index.html

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