[cfe-dev] [ANN] ccons : an interactive console for C based on clang and LLVM

[Chris Lattner]

On Apr 30, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Alexei Svitkine wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> 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.

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:
http://llvm.org/ProjectsWithLLVM/

?  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.

-Chris

>
> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> The resulting project is Open Source (MIT Licensed) and is available  
> on Google Code:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/ccons
>
> 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.
>
> To see some of the features that ccons supports, you can take a look  
> at my presentation about it:
>
> http://fizzysoft.net/personal/ccons.pdf
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Alexei Svitkine
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