[cfe-dev] [PATCH] Tooling docs - structuring proposal
Stephen Kelly
steveire at gmail.com
Mon Apr 16 13:29:33 PDT 2012
Manuel Klimek wrote:
> I'm working on documenting stuff around the general tooling efforts
> that clang offers.
> ind attached a crude first draft of where I want to start for people
> who have no idea what they should look into.
>
> The general structure I imagine is:
> Tooling.html - basically the attached document, explaining what to use
> when, linking to the other docs
>
> ClangPlugins.html - tutorial on how to write a clang plugin,
> eventually leading to FrontendAction.html
> LibTooling.html - tutorial on how to write clang standalone tools,
> also leading to FrontendAction.html
> (LibClang.html would fit here, but I'm not in a position to write it ;)
>
> FrontendAction.html - explains how to create your own FrontendAction
> to use in a plugin or clang tool, possibly including the use of the
> RAV (not sure whether we should split that out), linking to
> ClangAST.html for reference
>
> ClangAST.html - a more generic introduction to the Clang AST, what it
> looks like on a high level, the basic nodes it's made up from, how to
> dig into the docs etc
>
> If nobody objects I'll just go on writing initial rough draft versions...
>
> Thoughts?
> /Manuel
Did any more documentation along these lines ever get written?
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