TITLE

The Headerizer

AUTHOR

Andy Lester andy@petdance.com

INTRODUCTION

The Headerizer (tools/build/headerizer.pl) is a tool that generates chunks of .h header files based on C source code.

The long-term plan for the headerizer is that it will take all the prototypes for all the functions and populate all the .h files automatically. No need to worry about differences between header and source, because the header comes from it. It'll also auto-generate attributes for each of the functions that work with GCC.

RUNNING THE HEADERIZER

Yesterday there was a problem where I forgot to put PARROT_API on the function in source, so linking on Windows broke. If that happens again, here's what you do:

* Run Configure.pl * Update the source with PARROT_API above the return type * Run "make headerizer"

The .h file should now have PARROT_API for the function in question.