Welcome to cpptcl!

cpptcl creates a bridge between C++ and Tcl, providing deep interoperability between the two languages.

C++ developers can use Tcl to create new and powerful ways to interact with, debug, construct automated testing for, and orchestrate the high level activies of their applications.

Tcl developers can use C++ to create high performance code that leverages all of the C++ ecosystem while providing dead simple ways to bring their C++ functions into Tcl, with expected Tcl semantics and no funny business. Writing C++ extensions for Tcl using cpptcl is vastly easier and requires far less code than extending Tcl in C.

cpptcl was inspired by the Boost.Python library and was designed to provide a similar interface, while taking into account the nature of Tcl.

C++/Tcl provides the following features:

• Support for both extending Tcl with C++ modules and embedding Tcl in C++ applications.
• The ability to expose C++ functions as commands in Tcl with automatic argument/data type management and conversion.
• The ability to define classes and class member functions and make them accessible from Tcl in a manner similar to SWIG wrappers.
• The ability to manipulate Tcl lists and objects from C++.

Quick Start

Extending Tcl by C++ module
Embedding Tcl in C++ program

Exposing Free Functions
Exposing Classes

Member functions
Constructors
Destructors

Objects and Lists
Call Policies

Factories and sinks
Variadic functions

Threads

Various Goodies

Package support
Stream evaluation
Tcl Namespaces
Safe Tcl Interpreters
Aliasing

Errors
Compiling

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