[cfe-dev] using python clang.cindex library to generate bindings ?

[Daniel Dunbar]

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Sebastien Binet <binet at cern.ch> wrote:
> hi there,
>
> I just noticed that llvm/clang-2.7 provides a ctypes-based library
> wrapping libCIndex.so for python.
> Is it possible, planned or adviseable to use such a thing to
> programatically generate a representation (say in json/xml) of some
> C/C++ api so it could be then used to automatically generate bindings
> in other high-level languages ?

It seems possible, but now one is working on it as far as I know. As
far as advisable, its certainly a better approach than doing ad hoc
parsing of C/C++ code.

 - Daniel

>
> cheers,
> sebastien.
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