[cfe-dev] Java bindings for clang/libclang?

[Alek Paunov]

Hi Nathan,

On 29.11.2011 23:51, Nathan Ridge wrote:
> I am wondering whether there exist Java bindings for libclang, or some other
> way to access the clang API from Java code (other than using JNI directly - I'm
> thinking of something like a Java wrapper library, possibly implemented using
> JNI)?

Another JNA variant (besides Kevin suggestion for semi-automatic 
generation of complete binding) might be straight-forward translation of 
current FFI based bindings ($CLANG/bindings/python).

Or, you might test if it will be zippy enough with in-process JIT-ed 
FFI/IPC instead of classical bindings:

libclang - LiaJIT FFI - msgpack - zeromq-INPROC:// - msgpack - java

http://luajit.org/ext_ffi_tutorial.html#zlib
http://www.zeromq.org/bindings:lua

At least, the FFI part will be faster than JNA or current Python FFI 
bindings (because Python FFI is not JIT-ed to machine code). The size of 
LuaJIT.so on x86_64 is about 400K.

This way advantages - a) Like JNA, easier (compared to JNI) following of 
libclang evolution, but with possible better performance b) potential 
direct reuse of your libclang as zeromq/msgpack service by other 
projects and c) practical experience in the build server direction of 
research.

Kind regards,
Alek

P.S. Also, you can use Python bindings via JPype for the initial 
sketching (or generating other bindings).

http://jpype.sourceforge.net/