Makeheaders

This is a mirror-repo of the famous makeheaders tool with various fixes and tweaks I made. The official upstream version is the "proper" version to use, and can be found at their website. If confused by why this version is interesting, just use the upstream tool and ignore this one. If you browsed this repo's changes and like/need them, then you know what you are doing and I don't have to explain :-)

My main purpose for uploading this repo is to email the link to the upstream authors so they can integrate some or all of the changes if they want, which will hopefully make this mirror obsolete. If they accept all the changes I will make a clear note of it here.

I started making these changes because I came across an error, and despite the various fixes I made I ran out of time to diagnose that original error, and as it is not a showstopper for me anyway I am just leaving it in the FIXME at the bottom of this README.

Any bug-reports of the local changes I have made can be reported to me but anything to do with the upstream tool itself should still be reported there.

Build instructions

A CMake file has been contributed, so if you are in a hurry (or lazy, not confident compiling, or whatever), if CMake is installed you can do the following to build a standard non-optimized executable and install it to your system's default custom-compilation bin-dir:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

makeheaders is plain ansi c, and doesn't depend on anything outside the standard library, so should be buildable with any command along the lines of:

${COMPILER} ${WARNINGS_FLAGS} ${OPTIMIZATION_FLAGS} -o makeheaders makeheaders.c

Read the comments near the top of makeheaders.c to see how I build it with gcc in mem-testing mode, stack-checking mode, and final mode, and for valgrind commandlines for testing the resulting executable.

Running instructions

Do ./makeheaders --help for details.

License

makeheaders is under the "Simplified BSD License" ("2-Clause License" or "FreeBSD License"). See the license-header at the top of the makeheaders.c file for copyright information.

FIXME

• CompleteForwardDeclarations does abort() when running ./makeheaders -local makeheaders.c (seems to be an issue on static functions with no preceding declaration)

Authors

Upstream author: D. Richard Hipp

Maintainer of this repo: Rowan Thorpe

Contributions: xoviat - CMake file