Documentation

Perl Extension Building with SWIG. This paper, presented at the 1998 O'Reilly Perl Conference, describes the use of SWIG with Perl5 and covers many advanced topics. [ PDF ].
Tcl and SWIG as a C/C++ Development Tool. Originally written as a draft for a book chapter, this paper provides an overview of using Tcl and SWIG. It also appears on the CD-ROM accompanying “Tcl/Tk for Real Programmers” by Clif Flynt.
SWIG : An Easy to Use Tool for Integrating Scripting Languages with C and C++. While a little dated, this is the first SWIG paper. Presented at the 4th Tcl/Tk Workshop, Monterey, California, July 6-10, 1996. Also available from USENIX.
Using SWIG to Control, Prototype, and Debug C Programs with Python. Presented at the 4th International Python Conference, Livermore, California, June, 1996.
Feeding a Large-scale Physics Application to Python. Presented at the 6th International Python Conference, San Jose, California. October 14-17, 1997. This paper describes the use of Python/SWIG with a high-performance physics application. This application was a runner-up in the 1998 Gordon-Bell prize for achieving 10 Gflops sustained performance on the Avalon Linux Cluster at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

SWIG Masterclass. In this tutorial, the creator of SWIG gives the inside story on what SWIG is, how it works, and how it is put together - PyCon March 2008.
Interfacing C/C++ and Python with SWIG (PDF). Half-day tutorial presented at the 7th International Python Conference, November, 1998.
Interfacing C/C++ and Python with SWIG (PDF). Half-day tutorial presented at the 6th International Python Conference, October, 1997.
Tcl Extension Building with SWIG (PDF). Tutorial presented at the 1998 Tcl/Tk Conference.

Klaus Kaempf gave an introductory SWIG tutorial in July 2008 as an OpenSUSE talk - Slides (pdf).
Perl users can find more information about SWIG in the O'Reilly book “Advanced Perl Programming”.
Daniel Blezek wrote an article about SWIG in the November, 1998 issue of the Dr Dobb's 'Rapid Prototyping with SWIG'.
Scott Bolte wrote an article about SWIG in the Winter, 1997 issue of The Perl Journal.
John Ousterhout's paper on scripting languages provides a good overview of the use of scripting languages and their relationship to systems programming languages. SWIG was developed with many of these issues in mind so this paper might be of interest to users who are new to SWIG and its goals.
Lightweight Computational Steering of Very Large Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations . Presented at Supercomputing'96. This paper describes the application that motivated the development of SWIG. (See why SWIG was originally developed).