<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 30, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Alexei Svitkine wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hello All,<div><br></div><div>This semester, as part of a personal Computer Science project course in my undergraduate studies, I decided to see if I could make an interactive console for the C programming language (like "irb" for Ruby) based on clang and LLVM. This would answer the questions: a) is such a thing possible and b) are the clang and LLVM libraries well suited for this.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is really cool Alexei! We don't have a great place yet to slot this into the clang web page, but could you please write a blurb for:</div><div><a href="http://llvm.org/ProjectsWithLLVM/">http://llvm.org/ProjectsWithLLVM/</a></div><div><br></div><div>? If so, I'll be happy to add it and link it up, thanks! If you end up writing a paper or thesis about this, I'd also love to add it to llvm.org/pubs.</div><div><br></div><div>-Chris</div><br><blockquote type="cite"> <div><br></div><div>The answer to a) is yes, it is possible. I was able to use the libraries and create something that works pretty well (excluding some obscure things which are not yet supported).</div><div><br></div><div> The answer to b), from my experiences, is that more work is needed on the clang and LLVM APIs to expose more functionality for diverse clients, such as this project. I will not go into details here, but will probably follow-up on this another time.</div> <div><br></div><div>The resulting project is Open Source (MIT Licensed) and is available on Google Code:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://code.google.com/p/ccons">http://code.google.com/p/ccons</a></div><div><br> </div> <div>You can check out the code and refer to the README.txt on how to build and run the code. It currently supports Mac OS X and Linux.</div><div><br></div><div>To see some of the features that ccons supports, you can take a look at my presentation about it:</div> <div><br></div><div><a href="http://fizzysoft.net/personal/ccons.pdf">http://fizzysoft.net/personal/ccons.pdf</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>-Alexei Svitkine</div> _______________________________________________<br>cfe-dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:cfe-dev@cs.uiuc.edu">cfe-dev@cs.uiuc.edu</a><br>http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>