Difference between revisions of "Tools"

Latest revision as of 13:29, 30 July 2024

Liberty Eiffel provides many tools besides the compiler.

All these tools use the configuration file.

The tools

Toolbox

se: a facade to all those tools

Compiling

clean: remove temporary C files after compilation
compile: the compiler (calls compile_to_c)
compile_to_c: the C compiler core
extract_internals: the tentative inter-program object sharing tool
wrappers_generator: a tools to generate low-level Eiffel wrappers for C code

Searching and documenting

eiffeldoc: generates the whole documentation of a project
finder: finds a class
pretty: makes your source file pretty
short: generates the interface documentation of a single class

Testing

ace_check: checks an ACE file
class_check: checks the syntax and the semantics of a source code
eiffeltest: the Liberty Eiffel testing tool
mock: the Liberty Eiffel mock tool

Installing

install: installs the Liberty Eiffel tools

The system core

If you are interested in how the system works, either by sheer curiosity, or because you want to modify it, here are some explanations.

If you want to create a new Liberty Eiffel-oriented tool, this information is important too; also look at EXTERNAL_TOOL.

class loading
syntactic analysis
semantic analysis
the optimizer
the visitors
code generation
- compile_to_c
- compile_to_jvm (obsolete)

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-[[Category:Book]]
+[[Category: Tool]]
+Liberty Eiffel provides many tools besides the [[compile|compiler]].
-[[SmartEiffel]] provides many tools besides the [[compile|compiler]].
+All these tools use the [[configuration file]].
-== The current tools (version 2.1) ==
+== The tools ==
+=== Toolbox ===
+* [[se]]: a facade to all those tools
+=== Compiling ===
+* [[clean]]: remove temporary C files after compilation
 * [[compile]]: the compiler (calls [[compile_to_c]])
 * [[compile_to_c]]: the C compiler core
+* [[extract_internals]]: the tentative inter-program object sharing tool
-* [[finder]]: the class finder
+* [[Wrapping_C_libraries|wrappers_generator]]: a tools to generate low-level Eiffel wrappers for C code
-* [[pretty]]: the class beautifier
-* [[short]]: the class interface documentator
+=== Searching and documenting ===
-* [[class_check]]: the class [[syntax]] and [[semantics]] checker
-* [[ace_check]]: the [[ACE file]] checker
+* [[eiffeldoc]]: generates the whole documentation of a project
+* [[finder]]: finds a class
+* [[pretty]]: makes your source file pretty
+* [[short]]: generates the interface documentation of a single class
+=== Testing ===
+* [[ace_check]]: checks an [[ACE|ACE file]]
+* [[class_check]]: checks the [[parsing|syntax]] and the [[semantics]] of a source code
+* [[eiffeltest]]: the Liberty Eiffel testing tool
+* [[mock]]: the Liberty Eiffel mock tool
+=== Installing ===
+* [[install]]: installs the Liberty Eiffel tools
+== The system core ==
+If you are interested in how the system works, either by sheer curiosity, or because you want to modify it, here are some explanations.
-== The upcoming tools (for 2.2) ==
+If you want to create a new Liberty Eiffel-oriented tool, this information is important too; also look at [[tool_class:EXTERNAL_TOOL|<tt>EXTERNAL_TOOL</tt>]].
-Along with the existing tools, a few new tools will be included in the 2.2 release:
+* [[class loading]]
-* [[se]]: the front-end to all tools
+* [[parsing|syntactic analysis]]
-* [[eiffeldoc]]: the project documentator
+* [[semantics|semantic analysis]]
-* [[compile_to_jvm]]: the JVM compiler, back to life from 1.1
+* the [[optimizer]]
+* the [[visitor|visitors]]
+* code generation
+** [[compile_to_c#Generation|compile_to_c]]
+** [[compile_to_jvm#Generation|compile_to_jvm (obsolete)]]