From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-08-04T17:13:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing C header files

On Aug 2, 2007, at 17:50, Wayne wrote:

> I was wondering if there is a tool that can parse a C header file and
> give me an AST that would allow me to process it in Ruby.  Does anyone
> know of a relatively easy way to do this?  I was thinking that a lot
> of people probably need to parse API's for one reason or another.
>
> My situation is that we have a large application that was originally
> written in Ada, but now has a C interface.  We need to make the API
> available to Matlab/Simulink, which is a model-based development
> system (basically it's programming with diagrams).  This is done in
> Matlab via S-functions (system functions).  This system is pretty
> large and writing all the S-functions by hand would be a big job.
> Seems to me that a tool is the best choice and Ruby seems like the
> tool to do it.

Take a look at h2rb in ext/dl/ in a ruby checkout/tarball.

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