Addendum: apparently, clang even provides python bindings. http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/07/03/parsing-c-in-python-with-clang/
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Leonard Ritter <pa...@paniq.org> wrote: > (sorry, that was also supposed to go to the ML) > > Awesome work, keep it up! > > But: I showed the reflex library you're using to friends and they both > suggested clang to parse C++ headers instead. What do you think about > that? > > Cheers, > Leonard > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:08 AM, <wlavrij...@lbl.gov> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> as detailed in a couple of blog posts in the past (*), for some time now we >> have been working on making C++ bindings through the Reflex package >> available >> on PyPy, in the form of the "cppyy" module. Software is never done, and that >> is true also in this case, but it has reached a level of maturity at which >> it >> can be said to be usable. Initial docs are now up on: >> >> http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/cppyy.html >> >> with instructions on how to setup the reflex-support branch and how to test >> it out. The documentation will be updated with more advanced and detailed >> topics in the next couple of weeks or so. >> >> There's a sizable (non-PyPy) set of unit tests that still need to be worked >> through, thus development will steadily continue at its current pace. Still, >> if you find that cppyy almost works for you except for a particular feature, >> feel free to ask for it to be prioritized. >> >> The biggest obstacle for most people (that are not in the field of HEP) will >> be the current set of dependencies. Although the dependency set for cppyy is >> really only Reflex, which could be distributed separately, for the CPython >> equivalent code, the dependency set is a large portion of the ROOT class >> library. The medium-term plan then is to use Cling, which is based on CLang >> from llvm (http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cling) as the back-end. For >> this, there will be a PyCling on CPython, and all as stand-alone projects to >> remove the large dependency set. >> >> More interesting though, having Cling on the back of the bindings allows >> far more advanced features, such as dynamic setup of callbacks and cross >> language inheritance to put Python code into C++ frameworks. This has been >> prototyped successfully in Clings predecessor (CINT), but would be very hard >> to do in Reflex. >> >> Of course, an important reason for pushing this code out to the community >> somewhat early, is that it allows anyone so interested to start hacking on >> it and help shape it! >> >> Best regards, >> Wim >> >> (*) >> http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/08/wrapping-c-libraries-with-reflection.html >> >> http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2010/07/cern-sprint-report-wrapping-c-libraries.html >> -- >> wlavrij...@lbl.gov -- +1 (510) 486 6411 -- www.lavrijsen.net >> _______________________________________________ >> pypy-dev mailing list >> pypy-dev@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
