Hey guys,
I was just wondering if there is any type of library that allows me to compile C code? I'm looking for something like:
Code:... char *c = CCodeAsAString(); /* Some Function that returns "int main() {...}" */ ... char *machinecode = compile(c); ...
Is there some sort of GCC library or anything? I just don't actually wanna dig into the massive GCC tree or use a shell script wrapper...
Thanks in advance.
You'd be better off just executing MinGW's (or some equiv. compiler's) tools from your program and then getting the output from the files it spits out.
Maybe this would be of interest to you, too. Otherwise, you could indeed just use the installed compiler, perhaps using some self-written glue so it produces a linkable binary, which you can load into your own application. I've seen this approach used in a simple graphing calculator a long time ago (for BeOS, in fact) so you could type actual code as your expression. I thought it was a pretty cool idea.
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I'd go with something like TCC (http://bellard.org/tcc/) if you were to try and include it in your project. Otherwise do what MacGyver said.
ie,
Write the string to a file,
Call gcc or whatever the users compiler is
Call the resulting binary
