3 This directory contains the source code of the pidl (Perl IDL)
6 The main sources for pidl are available by Subversion on
7 svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/pidl
9 Pidl works by building a parse tree from a .pidl file (a simple
10 dump of it's internal parse tree) or a .idl file
11 (a file format mostly like the IDL file format midl uses).
12 The IDL file parser is in idl.yp (a yacc file converted to
15 After a parse tree is present, pidl will call one of it's backends
16 (which one depends on the options given on the command-line). Here is
17 a list of current backends:
19 Standalone installation:
20 ========================
21 Run Makefile.PL to generate the Makefile.
23 Then run "make install" (as root) to install.
29 Parse::Pidl::Dump - Converts the parse tree back to an IDL file
30 Parse::Pidl::Samba4::Header - Generates header file with data structures defined in IDL file
31 Parse::Pidl::NDR - Generates intermediate datastructures for use by NDR parses/generators
32 Parse::Pidl::ODL - Generates IDL structures from ODL structures for use in the NDR parser generator
33 Parse::Pidl::Test - Utility functions for use in pidl's testsuite
36 Parse::Pidl::Samba4::NDR::Client - Generates client call functions in C using the NDR parser
37 Parse::Pidl::Samba4::NDR::Parser - Generates pull/push functions for parsing NDR
38 Parse::Pidl::Samba4::NDR::Server - Generates server side implementation in C
39 Parse::Pidl::Samba4::TDR - Parser generator for the "Trivial Data Representation"
40 Parse::Pidl::Samba4::Template - Generates stubs in C for server implementation
41 Parse::Pidl::Samba4::Python - Generates bindings for Python
43 -- Samba COM / DCOM --
44 Parse::Pidl::Samba4::COM::Proxy - Generates proxy object for DCOM (client-side)
45 Parse::Pidl::Samba4::COM::Stub - Generates stub call handler for DCOM (server-side)
46 Parse::Pidl::Samba4::COM::Header - Generates headers for COM
49 Parse::Pidl::Wireshark::NDR - Generates a parser for the Wireshark network sniffer
50 Parse::Pidl::Wireshark::Conformance - Reads conformance files containing additional data for generating Wireshark parsers
53 Parse::Pidl::Util - Misc utility functions used by *.pm and pidl.pl
54 Parse::Pidl::Typelist - Utility functions for keeping track of known types and their representation in C
56 Tips for hacking on pidl:
57 - Look at the pidl's parse tree by using the --keep option and looking
58 at the generated .pidl file.
59 - The various backends have a lot in common, if you don't understand how one
60 implements something, look at the others
61 - See pidl(1) and the documentation on midl
62 - See 'info bison' and yapp(1) for information on the file format of idl.yp