doc/guide/src/MLNLFFIGen.adoc

   1 MLNLFFIGen
   2 ==========
   3
   4 `mlnlffigen` generates a <:MLNLFFI:> binding from a collection of `.c`
   5 files. It is based on the <:CKitLibrary:>, which is primarily designed
   6 to handle standardized C and thus does not understand many (any?)
   7 compiler extensions; however, it attempts to recover from errors when
   8 seeing unrecognized definitions.
   9
  10 In order to work around common gcc extensions, it may be useful to add
  11 `-cppopt` options to the command line; for example
  12 `-cppopt '-D__extension__'` may be occasionally useful. Fortunately,
  13 most portable libraries largely avoid the use of these types of
  14 extensions in header files.
  15
  16 `mlnlffigen` will normally not generate bindings for `#included`
  17 files; see `-match` and `-allSU` if this is desirable.