Build SWIG with Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express

"SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages. SWIG is used with different types of languages including common scripting languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl and Ruby".

    Building SWIG on Windows is not a hard work. The official documenation shows out at least two ways for you. But, these two ways have additional prerequisites. Either MinGW and MSYS or Cywin are required to be installed. As it said, "If you don't want to install Cygwin or MinGW, use a different compiler to build SWIG. For example, all the source code files can be added to a Visual C++ project file in order to build swig.exe from the Visual C++ IDE".

    Just follow this instruction, you will get lots of errors complaining no swigconfig.h found. To solve this issue, copy the file
        %SWIGDIR%/Source/Include/swigconfig.in
to
       %SWIGDIR%/Source/Include/swigconfig.h.
Then, let's make some modification to this newly copied file as below: Now, you can build swig.exe successfully (Oh, do remember to add all the subfolders to additional include search path before compilation).

#define HAVE_BOOL 1 
#define SWIG_LIB "" 
#define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.3.33" 
#define SWIG_CXX "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express" 
#define SWIG_PLATFORM "Windows Server 2003" 
#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "http://" 
#define SWIG_LIB_WIN_UNIX "Lib"