Hi, 2009/11/19 "Andrés G. Aragoneses" <[email protected]>: > > For the purposes of having a tool that, instead of converting vala code > to C, would do the other way around (GObject-C to Vala), would the > current architecture of the vala compiler help on developing this task? I don't think so. > I'm wondering if the process of generation of C fragments could be > easily refactored to be able to do a C-language scanner from that. I don't think it's possible. You can use C and Vala ast types from libvala (and use libvala to output vala code). But you'll need to write a C parser, and have some rules for converting statements. This way would work for converting hand-written code, but converting e.g. Vala generated code, would give "unuseable" Vala code, unless you look for all the tricks used in the vala code generator (which is a big chunk of code) such as do{...}while(0) > > Not looked at vala sources yet at all, sorry. Any pointers or gross > estimation of work is appreciated. Thanks! I think you can use gobject-introspection to get the GObject part (that is, gobject conventions to vala) as is used to generate bindings, for the C part, you'll have to write something that translates C statements to vala ones. I think you can do a relatively good job for "simple" types (that is, excluding arrays, delegates, which have length/target), but the generated code would need to be reviewed.
I'm not sure it would be way better than converting the C code directly by hand (that is, if you want readable Vala code). HTH, Abderrahim _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
