[cfe-dev] some questions about index.h

[Ted Kremenek]

On Mar 15, 2012, at 7:12 PM, Zhe Chen <mr.zhechen at gmail.com> wrote:

>> On Mar 15, 2012, at 9:18 AM, Zhe Chen <mr.zhechen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear collegues,
>>     I have some questions about index.h in clang-c.
>> 1. why CINDEX_LINKAGE is defined? what is its role?
>> 
>> 
>> This is needed for the library to build correctly on Windows.
>> 
>> 2. Does somebody have a complete simple example to show the use of
>> index.h in your own program?
>> 
>> 
>> The c-index-test program is a good example of how the APIs can be used.
> 
> what is the relationship between clang/include/clang-c/index.h and
> clang/tools/libclang ?

Index.h is the exported libclang API.  It is named that way because libclang was originally intended as a library for doing source code indexing.

> just declaration and implementation?

That's it.