tips & tricks for developers regarding the SWIG bindings
- the general concept is described in the K. Wette 2020 SWIGLAL paper
- a tutorial on using the SWIG bindings can be found in the Doxygen documentation here
How do I debug SWIG while developing, without having to install everything?
Go to the swig/ directory in any LALSuite library and run make run-python. This will drop you into an interactive Python session with all the paths set up to import the pre-installed SWIG wrappings, so you don't have to run make install first. If you want to run under a debugger, use make run-python RUNTOOL="gdb --args".