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Generating c code with xtext [message #1266423]

Fri, 07 March 2014 07:39

Eclipse User

Hello all,
I want to generate c code from a dsl.
I can't find somewhere resources that shows a way to generate something following my
requirements which I will analyse in the following lines.

In the following lines I will give more informations:
Lets say that I have the following dsl program.
a; b; c; //three statements
and for those statements I want to generate an other program with the statements
A; B; C. And I want this file to have an extention ".c".
How can I do that?

What I sould write where the dots are?

override void doGenerate(Resource resource, IFileSystemAccess fsa) {
// fsa.generateFile(..........???????..............)

}

Thanks.

Re: Generating c code with xtext [message #1266519 is a reply to message #1266423]

Fri, 07 March 2014 10:12

Eclipse User

Hi I am not sure if I get your question.
I assume you don't use xbase.

Generating code is generating text. So it does not matter if you
generate a test.java or a test.c or a test.h file or whether these
files contain java or c or something else

Did you do the Xtext tutorials from the docs generating code? If you
need specific help you should at least share your grammar.
Regards Christian

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Re: Generating c code with xtext [message #1266735 is a reply to message #1266519]

Fri, 07 March 2014 17:26

Eclipse User

Thanks.
Lets say that I want to generate text A;B;C in my example, which is independent of the original dsl code a;b;c
And I want to generate just one file (not many as in one example I have seen).
To do it more concrete lets say that I want to always generate the following peace of code
(*independent of what the dsl user have writen.)

#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
return 0;
}

How can I do it? If I knew that, I beleive that I could make a start.

Thanks a lot
Antonis.

[Updated on: Fri, 07 March 2014 17:29] by Moderator

Re: Generating c code with xtext [message #1266736 is a reply to message #1266735]

Fri, 07 March 2014 17:29

Eclipse User

HI,

i still do not get your point ?!?

fsa.generateFile("xyz.c",'''
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
return 0;
}
''')

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