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---++ Introduction

CX is an aterm bridge for [[http://manju.cs.berkeley.edu/cil/][CIL]], an existing C front-end implement in OCaml. The Stratego/XT-based package CX uses this bridge to read C code. CX will become a full set of tools for combining CIL and Stratego for the implementation of C transformations and analysis. The main difference with other Stratego/XT projects that provide support for C (Transformers) is that this uses an existing C front-end and not an SDF-based parser. The advantage is that you get the solid support of the existing frontend. CIL supports some C dialects as well. The disadvantage is that there is no grammar from which you can derive useful things for use with Stratego/XT.

---++ Features

	* C to ATerm bridge based on CIL
	* Pretty-printer from CIL to C

---++ Download

---+++ Latest Developments

Distributions (tarball, rpm, srpm) of the head revision are created continuously:

	* %DIST%/cx-unstable-latest/

The distributions contain the latest of the latest developments, but if you really want to, the latest sources can be checked out using:
<pre>
  svn checkout %SVNSTRATEGOXT%/cx/trunk
</pre>
Before you can configure the package as described above you have to run the =./bootstrap= script.

---+++ Installation

Install the package with the usual sequence of commands:

<verbatim>
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
</verbatim>

You might need to set your =PKG_CONFIG_PATH= if you did not install the dependencies in a standard location. Configure will tell you to do this if it cannot find aterm, sdf or strategoxt.

---++ Project Info

---+++ Issue Tracking

We use JIRA to keep track of issues. Please report any issues that you encounter!
	* %ISSUE%/CX

---+++ Contact and Mailing List

Please send questions to the [[https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/stratego][stratego@cs.uu.nl mailing list]]. Also, the CX developers are usually available on IRC at [[irc://irc.freenode.net/stratego][irc.freenode.net/stratego]]. Feel free to drop by!

---+++ Source Repository

The sources of CX are available from Subversion.
	* https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/StrategoXT/cx/trunk

---+++ Team

Contributors:
	* Mart Kolthof

---+++ License

CX is GPL (GNU General Public License) software.

---++ Related Software

	* [[http://www.lrde.epita.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Transformers/Transformers][Transformers]]

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