Re: [cdt-dev] Using the CDT Parser as a stand-alone module

[Rick Moseley <rmoseley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, thanks Chris and Jason.  I appreciate your time.  I'll figure out 
where we go from here.

Rick Moseley
rmoseley@xxxxxxxxxx

Chris Recoskie wrote:
> I've actually built the parser as its own JAR for my remote prototype...
> here is the .jardesc file which you can use to build it.  You'll still need
> some other jars to handle the dependencies though like Jay said.
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> (See attached file: parser.jardesc)
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> Chris Recoskie
> Team Lead, IBM CDT Team
> IBM Toronto
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> Hi Rick,
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> > > The parser is decoupled enough that you can use it without Eclipse
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> running.
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> > Is it decoupled enough to bust out the source code separately so I can
> > compile it with gjc into a jar?  That is, are there any internal Eclipse
> > dependencies that the parser needs to build?  Frysk is being written
> > mainly in Java with a few necessary C/C++ files(CNI for various bindings
> > and what-not) and is statically compiled/linked using gcj/gcc.  I was
> > hoping we could import the source code into Frysk like we did for CDT
> > parser version 2.0 as it was totally standalone requiring no other
> > Eclipse pieces to build.  Do you know if it is decoupled enough for that?
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> I tried to build the parser standalone earlier this year.  It was too
> tricky to figure out exactly what the build time dependencies were.  I had
> to give up after a while because there were dependencies on Eclipse
> Platform components.  So the CDT 4.0 parsers are not decoupled in the same
> sense that the 3.X parsers were.  However, at runtime, they don't need
> Eclipse running.  I'm sure it's possible to decouple the code further to
> allow a standalone build but that would require quite a bit of extra work.
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> Jason Montojo
> IBM CDT Team
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