Title: AutoWIG: Automatic Generation of Python Bindings for C++ Libraries,
Abstract: Most of Python and R scientific packages incorporate compiled scientific
libraries to speed up the code and reuse legacy libraries. While several
semi-automatic solutions exist to wrap these compiled libraries, the process of
wrapping a large library is cumbersome and time consuming. In this paper, we
introduce AutoWIG, a Python package that wraps automatically compiled libraries
into high-level languages using LLVM/Clang technologies and the Mako templating
engine. Our approach is automatic, extensible, and applies to complex C++
libraries, composed of thousands of classes or incorporating modern
meta-programming constructs.