# Tutorial on wrapping C/C++ libraries for use in Ruby? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 4, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tutorial-on-wrapping-c-c-libraries-for-use-in-ruby/101429 "2006-08-04T20:21:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rtijoriwala](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@rtijoriwala](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rtijoriwala)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tutorial-on-wrapping-c-c-libraries-for-use-in-ruby/101429/1 "2006-08-04T20:21:08Z")
Is there any tutorial/link/website that explains how to wrap existing c/c++ libraries for use from within Ruby? ---
**Author:** ![rtijoriwala](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@rtijoriwala](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rtijoriwala)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tutorial-on-wrapping-c-c-libraries-for-use-in-ruby/101429/2 "2006-08-04T21:03:59Z")
On 8/4/06, Ritesh T. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Is there any tutorial/link/website that explains how to wrap existing > c/c++ libraries for use from within Ruby? Google for “swig ruby” and you should find some useful links. SWIG ([http://www.swig.org/](http://www.swig.org/)) is a tool for semi-automatically generating Ruby wrapper code for C/C++ libraries. ---
**Author:** ![rtijoriwala](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@rtijoriwala](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rtijoriwala)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tutorial-on-wrapping-c-c-libraries-for-use-in-ruby/101429/3 "2006-08-04T21:49:02Z")
Lyle J. wrote: > On 8/4/06, Ritesh T. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Is there any tutorial/link/website that explains how to wrap existing > > c/c++ libraries for use from within Ruby? > > Google for “swig ruby” and you should find some useful links. SWIG > ([http://www.swig.org/](http://www.swig.org/)) is a tool for semi-automatically generating > Ruby wrapper code for C/C++ libraries. I tried swig but is not that clean. I am looking for hand wrapping C/C++ libraries for use with Ruby. ---
**Author:** ![rtijoriwala](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@rtijoriwala](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rtijoriwala)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tutorial-on-wrapping-c-c-libraries-for-use-in-ruby/101429/4 "2006-08-04T22:07:10Z")
On 8/4/06, Ritesh T. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I tried swig but is not that clean. I am looking for hand wrapping C/C++ > libraries for use with Ruby. 1. [Radar – O’Reilly](http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/11/18/extending_ruby.html) 2. There’s a good introduction in [https://pragprog.com/titles/ruby/programming-ruby-2nd-edition/](http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ruby/index.html), which you should already own. Joe ---
**Author:** ![rtijoriwala](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@rtijoriwala](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rtijoriwala)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tutorial-on-wrapping-c-c-libraries-for-use-in-ruby/101429/5 "2006-08-04T22:13:14Z")
Ritesh T. wrote: > libraries for use with Ruby. The Pickaxe ([https://pragprog.com/titles/ruby/programming-ruby-2nd-edition/](http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ruby/index.html)) is probably your best source of information about this. Also the Ruby tarball includes a file called (iirc) README.EXT that has the basic information.