libclang is more than that. Xcode code highlighting and code indexing is based on lib clang, as well as delta compilation. (and I have a remote plan of cloning Xcode for GNUstep)
Also, there was a friend of mine that created a translator that converts code from a new language to C, and I modified it to plug libclang at its output and that made it a full compiler that emits object files (and links) On Oct 19, 2013, at 23:43, Jean-Daniel Dupas <devli...@shadowlab.org> wrote: > > Le 19 oct. 2013 à 15:01, Uli Kusterer <witness.of.teacht...@gmx.net> a écrit : > >> On 19 Oct 2013, at 01:17, Shane Stanley <sstan...@myriad-com.com.au> wrote: >>> On 19 Oct 2013, at 3:15 AM, Uli Kusterer <witness.of.teacht...@gmx.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> this is what you'd do if you wanted to make e.g. CoreFoundation APIs >>>> accessible to a scripting language >>> >>> That's along the lines of what I had in mind, although in this case for >>> basic things like the trig functions in Math.h. >> >> So, is this supposed to just directly hand off some standard functions you >> decide to map into your library, like PHP exposes most of the standard C >> library? In that case I’d probably just write a little script that generates >> wrappers that translate between your language’s calling convention and the >> one of the C library, and enter them in a global variable with a struct that >> maps the plain-text name to the function pointer. >> >> Whether you actually want to regex-parse the headers (like I did here for my >> Hammer programming language: >> https://github.com/uliwitness/Forge/blob/master/headerimport.php) or whether >> you want to just hand-write a short, easily parsed list of the functions and >> their argument types is up to you. The latter requires less maintenance if >> you plan to only selectively import a few native calls, as regex-parsing of >> C/ObjC headers is rather optimistic and tends to break every couple of >> system releases. >> > > To parse C/Obj-C/C++ headers, you can also use libclang which is design to do > that. I used it to parse C header and generate boilerplate code some times > ago, and it worked quite well with very few code to write on my side. > >> If you, on the other hand, want to support creation of actual headers by >> users of your language and adding of new functions w/o recompiling, you’re >> prolly best off with a foreign function interface like libffi. >> >> Cheers, >> -- Uli Kusterer >> “The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere...” >> http://stacksmith.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) >> >> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >> >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/devlists%40shadowlab.org >> >> This email sent to devli...@shadowlab.org > > -- Jean-Daniel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/xcvista%40me.com > > This email sent to xcvi...@me.com
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