Re: [Help-glpk] Patch for GLPK 4.35 to support SWIG

[Andrew Makhorin]

Hi Xypron,

>>> Which problems may appear if glpk.i is not included in
>>> the distribution? Does glpk.i depend on the wrapper's language or on
>>> glpk.h (or on somewhat else)?

> Including glpk.i and the appropriate makefiles will simply make it easier
> for
> users to make use of glpk in other languages.

> I remember some messages to this list concerned with using GLPK in
> languages like Java or Python.

> Up to now maintenance of interfaces for other languages has been sporadic.
> Swig does allow to have up to date interfaces.

> Please, find appended an archive with all files needed to create a Java
> interface with Swig under Windows 32 bit and an example.

> http://www.nabble.com/file/p21798871/glpk-4.35-swig.tar.gz
> glpk-4.35-swig.tar.gz 

Thank you for your contribution.

I have two questions:

1. Is glpk.i sufficient to use swig (assuming that the user knows
   what it is and how to use it)?

2. Build_JNI_with_VC9_DLL.bat builds one dll, which includes the
   wrapper module. However it seems to me that it is better to build
   the glpk dll separately from the wrapper dll. What do you think?


Andrew Makhorin