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Add a mode to only generate a necessary set of API

Open Gnimuc opened this issue 4 years ago • 0 comments
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Clang.jl's generator is mainly for creating a complete self-contained Julia binding wrapper package for C libraries.

For C libraries with a huge API set, it's easy to generate raw bindings with Clang.jl but hard to maintain a set of high-level Julia wrappers. So, in practice, there are cases where users only want to use, maintain or embed a small group of API functions from a large C library in their projects.

This problem can be alleviated by adding a "lazy" mode to Clang.jl's generator. Given a set of names, this mode should recursively generate bindings for functions whose names are matched in the set and all dependent identifiers.

Gnimuc avatar Oct 13 '21 09:10 Gnimuc