[LLVMdev] Introducing LLBrowse: A graphical browser for LLVM modules

[Talin]

A lot of people have requested a source archive, so I'm making available
here:

http://code.google.com/p/tart/downloads/detail?name=llbrowse.tgz

Have fun!

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Talin <viridia at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've written a little GUI application that displays an LLVM module as an
> expandable tree, which can be useful for examining the module's contents.
> Some features:
>
>    - Based on wxWidgets, so it's completely cross-platform.
>    - CMake build script can locate both LLVM and wxWidgets installations
>    automatically.
>    - Loads either .ll or .bc files.
>    - Supports browsing of LLVM types, variables, functions, aliases, and
>    metadata. I'm working on supporting a more structured view of DWARF DIEs,
>    but that is not complete.
>    - Tree nodes are created lazily as needed.
>    - The tree node system is highly extensible, each different LLVM object
>    type is represented by a tree node class, adding new node classes is
>    extremely easy.
>    - The code is very straightforward and easy to read.
>    - All image resources are embedded in the final executable, so the
>    compiles program is just a single binary file, very easily installed.
>
> This is still a work in progress, but I think it's ready for people to
> start hacking on.
>
> If there is interest, I can check the code into the llvm.org svn somewhere
> - I just need to know where to put it. Otherwise, I'm happy to email a zip
> archive to folks who are interested. I'm willing to release the code under
> whatever license is most convenient.
>
> Here's a screenshot of what it looks like:
>
> [image: llbrowse.png]
>
> And here's what the node class for displaying variables looks like, as an
> example:
>
> class VariableItem : public TreeItemBase {
> public:
>   VariableItem(const llvm::Module* module, const llvm::GlobalVariable* var)
>     : module_(module), var_(var) {}
>
>   // Overrides
>
>   int GetIcon() const;
>   wxString GetCaption() const;
>   void CreateChildren(wxTreeCtrl* tree, const wxTreeItemId& id);
>   bool CanCreateChildren() const;
>   void ShowDetails(DetailsView* detailsView);
>
> private:
>   const llvm::Module* const module_;
>   const llvm::GlobalVariable* const var_;
> };
>
>
> --
> -- Talin
>



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-- Talin
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