Re: [boost] Scalpel: a Spirit&Wave-powered C++ source code analysis library

Subject: Re: [boost] Scalpel: a Spirit&Wave-powered C++ source code analysis library
From: Sebastian Redl (sebastian.redl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-06 20:51:01

On Sep 6, 2010, at 5:32 PM, Nelson, Erik - 2 wrote:

> 
> On 09/03/2010 05:04 PM, Doug Gregor wrote:
> 
>> Having a good, open-source C++ parser library that could support such 
>> tools would be wonderful. However, I am going to be a stick-in-the-mud
> 
>> and propose that we already have such a library. Clang:
>> I strongly encourage you not to begin yet another open-source C++ 
>> parser.
> 
> 
> Last time I looked at Clang, it wasn't compilable with MSVC- is my
> memory accurate?

It's probably accurate, but also outdated. Clang can be compiled by Visual Studio (many thanks to Steven Watanabe, by the way). What Clang can't do yet is parse VS's own headers, at least not enough of them for reasonable programs. So you have to use MinGW's headers.

Sebastian