Re: [ANN] luaclang - a Lua binding to the Clang API to parse C/C++ files

[Max de Bayser <maxdebayser@...>]

Michael,

I've been using clang's parser libraries to generate meta-data for a
C++ reflection API but I would much prefer to use a stable lua wrapper
for the parser.

I tried to use clang's C API as well but at the time (3 months ago?)
there was no way to find out several little details about C++ classes.
I don't remember exactly what was missing, but it was things like
finding out if a method is pure virtual or not. And I think several of
the new C++11 features have not made it to the C wrapper yet.. I'll
try to find it out again and contribute some unit tests for your code
:). The C++ API, on the other hand is complete but way more complex,
so a stable Lua wrapper is a great idea.

I'm _very_ interested in C++ JIT compilation as well as it would allow
me to save a huge amount of space for the method call code. It this
point I pre-compile everything and the executable gets huge.

You can find my reflection API at
https://github.com/maxdebayser/reflection . In a way, its a C++ to C++
binding. It has a Lua binding as well and some unit tests show how to
use C++ classes from Lua.

I'll give a closer look later but like Graham I'm interested in
joining efforts (with both projects)

regards,

Max de Bayser