Re: [Tinycc-devel] Using TCC to generate API wrappers

[grischka]

Kevin Ingwersen via Tinycc-devel wrote:
> Hello there!
>
> Quick and short question: Can I use libtcc to extract symbol information
> (types, functions, structs, enums, unions) from a C header so that I can
> then use it to generate a wrapper? My goal is to automate the process of
> C interop generation for the V language, which uses TCC as one of the
> mainly supported compilers - so the source is already accessible even
> from a standard V installation, hence my thought of possibly taking
> advantage of that to generate wrappers

As is, libtcc does not have support for that.  You would need to
add some lines here or there.  To start with, see tccgen.c:decl0():

    #if 0
            {
                char buf[500];
                type_to_str(buf, sizeof(buf), &type, get_tok_str(v, NULL));
                printf("type = '%s'\n", buf);
            }
    #endif

I did use similar hacks to generate the list of function prototypes in
tcc.h initially. (long ago)

--- grischka


> Thank you in advance!
>
> Kind regards,
> Kevin Ingwersen