Provides an API to run clang tools (FrontendActions) as standalone tools,
or repeatedly in-memory in a process. This is useful for unit-testing,
map-reduce style applications, source transformation daemons or command line
tools.
The ability to run over multiple translation units with different command
line arguments enables building up refactoring tools that need to apply
transformations across translation unit boundaries.
See tools/clang-check/ClangCheck.cpp for an example.
llvm-svn: 154008
This patch simplifies writing of standalone Clang tools. As an
example, we add clang-check, a tool that runs a syntax only frontend
action over a .cc file. When you integrate this into your favorite
editor, you get much faster feedback on your compilation errors, thus
reducing your feedback cycle especially when writing new code.
The tool depends on integration of an outstanding patch to CMake to
work which allows you to always have a current compile command
database in your cmake output directory when you set
CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS.
llvm-svn: 130306
the first step towards a standalone Clang tool infrastructure.
The plan is to make it easy to build command line tools that run over
the AST of source files in a project outside of the build system.
llvm-svn: 129924
NAKAMURA Takumi