Tools

SmartEiffel provides many tools besides the compiler.

All those tools use the configuration file.

The tools

Tool box

• se: a facade to all those tools

Compiling

• clean: remove the useless C files
• compile: the compiler (calls compile_to_c)
• compile_to_c: the C compiler core
• compile_to_jvm: the Java compiler
• extract_internals: the tentative inter-program object sharing tool

Searching and documenting

• eiffeldoc: generates the whole documentation of a project
• finder: find a class
• pretty: make your source file pretty
• short: generates the interface documentation of a single class

Debugging

• ace_check: check an ACE file
• class_check: check the syntax and the semantics of a source code
• print_jvm_class: the Java bytecode disassembler
• eiffeltest: the future testing tool

Installing

• install: installs the SmartEiffel tools

The system core

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

If you want to create a new SmartEiffel-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