1 # Template build file for 'libIDL'.
4 extract_sufx=".tar.bz2"
5 url=http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libIDL/0.8
6 build_style=gnu_configure
7 configure_env="HAVE_YACC=yes"
8 pkgconfig_override="libIDL-2.0.pc"
9 short_desc="CORBA Interface Definition Language parser"
10 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
11 checksum=1ffe518c0b63996fb01013d0a5af7b043156ab6a
13 libIDL is a library licensed under the GNU LGPL for creating trees of
14 CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL) files, which is a
15 specification for defining portable interfaces. libIDL was initially
16 written for ORBit (the ORB from the GNOME project, and the primary
17 means of libIDL distribution). However, the functionality was
18 designed to be as reusable and portable as possible.
20 It is written in C, and the aim is to retain the ability to compile it
21 on a system with a standard C compiler. Preprocessed parser files are
22 included so you are not forced to rebuild the parser, however an
23 effort is made to keep the parser and lexer compatible with standard
24 Unix yacc. Currently, flex is required to generate the lexical
27 With libIDL, you can parse an IDL file which will be automatically run
28 through the C preprocessor (on systems with one available), and have
29 detailed error and warning messages displayed. On a compilation
30 without errors, the tree is returned to the custom application.
31 libIDL performs compilation phases from lexical analysis to nearly
32 full semantic analysis with some optimizations, and will attempt to
33 generate meaningful errors and warnings for invalid or deprecated IDL."